From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 17: 5:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6C737BD0F for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA09051; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:01:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:01:42 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: John Purser Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping xdm In-Reply-To: <000301bf7c04$9e839480$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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