From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 22:49:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEAA37B417 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0F6nee19500 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:49:41 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002011507472241:2943 ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:47:22 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0F6xhY31820 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:59:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:59:43 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM Message-ID: <20020115075943.G393@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net> <02011516412801.01288@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <02011516412801.01288@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/15/2002 07:47:22 AM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/15/2002 07:47:28 AM, Serialize complete at 01/15/2002 07:47:28 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Brian Astill > To: Steve Wingate > Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:41:28 +1030 > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > In /etc/ttys, I found: > > > ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure > > > and changed off to on. > > > > Those periods in that xdm line don't belong so I don't know where you > > got those from. > > >From the file itself - I was most particular about being exact. > Maybe all I have to is remove those periods? Other lines have them in > similar places, though. If your /etc/ttys contains dots in tty lines like the one above, then there's something hosed. I would say fucked up. Could you tell me what revision of the file you have? Mine says: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/etc.i386/ttys,v 1.8 2000/01/29 12:18:03 obrien Exp $ # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 and this is a 4.4-STABLE box. Looks like your /etc/ttys got corrupted. BTW, I've experienced strange characters in cvsupped sources on one of my computers. Turned out to be off-by-one errors, caused by a broken NIC. > > Otherwise, you can always install xwrapper so users > > can start X11 from a command prompt. Should be in ports. > > I have Xwrapper in my system. When I type "Xwrapper" I get details > about usage, none of which seem to relate to starting an X session. Xwrapper allows you to start X through the startx(1) script. BTW, I can't find it in my /usr/ports (cvsupped yesterday), nor in the ports search on freebsd.org... I guess I'm in for a surprise with 4.5... -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 7:47AM up 2 days, 11:44, 17 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message