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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 12:35:59 -0800
From:      Dean <dean@thegrid.net>
To:        kde@lists.netcentral.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   kdm - GiveConsole problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990124123559.007e2c40@mail.thegrid.net>

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Hia folks,
	Please cc me in your replies to the mailing list since I do not subscribe
to them.  Thanks.
	Here's my problem:  I have xdm working sufficiently well to give me some
xterms and properly chown the console to the current logged-in user.  So, I
got kdm up and running annd tried to log in.  Instead of doing so, I get a
dialouge box appearing telling me that
	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole exited with a nonzero status."
or something expressing roughly the equivalent.
It then returned control to the kdm login screen.  I'm guessing that
something isn't properly running as root and cllling GiveConsole.  I've got
KDE 1.0 installed in /usr/local/kde with a symlink from /opt/kde to that
directory.  I'm running FreeBSD3.0.  Here's my config files for your scrutiny.

remus:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm# ll
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    390 Jan 24 01:03 GiveConsole*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    249 Jan 23 21:59 TakeConsole*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   1976 Mar  1  1998 Xaccess
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    183 Jan 24 01:04 Xreset*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   1048 Mar  1  1998 Xresources
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    491 Mar  1  1998 Xservers
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    618 Jan 24 01:05 Xsession*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    180 Jan 24 01:11 Xsetup_0*
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    282 Jan 24 00:58 Xstartup*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1001 Mar  1  1998 xdm-config
<snip>

remus:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm# cat GiveConsole
#!/bin/sh
chown $USER /dev/console

remus:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm# cat Xstartup 
#!/bin/sh
if [ -f /etc/nologin ]; then
   xmessage -file /etc/nologin -timeout 30 -center
   exit 1
fi
sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/Xservers $LOGNAME
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
exit 0

remus:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm# cat Xsetup_0 
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $
xconsole -geometry 480x130+0+0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail
/usr/local/kde/bin/kdmdesktop

What calls GiveConsole?  Maybe I don't have the ownerships set correctly on
that.
Thanks
Dean
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