From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 25 17:48:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA02663 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA02658 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:48:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA17201; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 11:17:51 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971026111750.55050@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 11:17:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Hai T. Le" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X server References: <3451F8A8.5825@flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <3451F8A8.5825@flash.net>; from Hai T. Le on Sat, Oct 25, 1997 at 01:48:24PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Oct 25, 1997 at 01:48:24PM +0000, Hai T. Le wrote: > Hi: > > I recently got this problem. When I boot up FreeBSD, I configured it to > start XDM. However when I type in my login and password, X tries to log > me in, but then logs me out again. I can't seem to get into my account > using X. If you use one of my other consoles, I can log in. > > I recently purchased a 3 button mouse. Do you think this has anything > to do with it? No. > I have a microsoft 2-button mouse before. I didn't do anything > different. I used to log in without any problems. > > Also, I don't know if this is the correct method, but when I shutdown, I > generally logout of my account in X, hit CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a non-X > terminal, login, and then type "shutdown now". The reason I do this is > because, xsm always asks me the next time I log in if I want to loag in > as failsafe, or default if I shutdown in X. Any thoughts??? I suppose that would do it. You can also shut down without leaving X. > I included the xdm-error file. I don't know what the errors mean > though. It includes some warning messages about the config file. I don't see anything serious, and definitely nothing that would explain why you can't log in any more. It's difficult to diagnose this one. Do you have any messages in /var/log/messages? Any in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors? Are you using a different keyboard mapping than US? What happens if you remove the password from the user and try again? Greg