From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 21:52:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post2.fast.net (post2.fast.net [198.69.204.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D2937BCC5 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from behanna@fast.net) Received: from fast.net (maxtnt03-phl-163.fast.net [206.245.156.67]) by post2.fast.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA29466 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:52:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38D07487.F715D6B2@fast.net> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:43:35 -0500 From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@fast.net Organization: PennaSoft Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: xdm Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Using the defaults that are set up from the 3.4 installation, I went on to set up .xsession files for both root and my regular user account, then started xdm from root's shell prompt. I can't log in at all with the regular user account. I get "Incorrect password" (which may be the case--I'll have to reset that password). When I attempt to log in as root, the screen goes black, and then xdm recycles itself and I get the login screen back. I can't break out of this--CTRL-Alt-Backspace just causes the cycle to repeat. The only way out is to push the button and reboot the machine (which I *hate* doing when non-journaling file systems are involved). Can I beg, borrow, or rent a clue from someone? Thanks, -- *********************************************************************** Chris BeHanna "The fact that an opinion has been widely Software Consultant held is no evidence whatever that it is behanna@nospam.fast.net not utterly absurd." -- Bertrand Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message