From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 16: 8: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE3F15644 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24758; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:05:03 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:05:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Mike Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: xdm In-Reply-To: <37A09297.345C96F5@Mlink.NET> 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 Hi, On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Mike wrote: > I reboot my box I get the xdm login prompt and I type my username and > passwd, when I press enter it seems like xdm restarts agin asking > username and passwd over again .. and it keeps on doing it over and > over It sounds to me like your .xsession doesn't exist or isn't executable. Login on a text console (not through xdm) and make sure your .xsession is executable ("chmod +x .xsession" if you're not sure). You can also look at .xsession-errors and see what it says. If you don't have a .xsession create one that looks something like: #!/bin/sh xterm -sb -sl 512 -bg gray -fn 10x20 & exec wmaker Of course you can change wmaker to whatever window manager you are using. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message