Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:01:42 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping xdm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002201857120.8965-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <000301bf7c04$9e839480$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote: > I just set up X-windows using sysinstall. After exiting from sysinstall I > entered "xdm" at the prompt and a window came up with a sign in prompt. I > signed in as root, hit return, and got another sign in prompt. If I enter a > user's name I can sign on but then all I can do is exit, which brings me > back to another sign in prompt. > > I can't get to any of my virtual terminals and all Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does > is restart X which brings up the same sign on window. > > How do I get out of this? > > John Purser Switch to vty0 with Ctrl-Alt-F1, login as root, and kill the xdm process. (killall xdm, or killall -9 xdm) Then, to fix your original problem, make sure that each user has an executable .xsession file in their home directory. (Man xdm for details on creating these files). Without .xsession, users will see a very bland twm (built in window manager) desktop that, by itself, isn't very functional. I recommend installing another desktop manager or two from ports, such as KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, Enlightenment, etc... -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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