From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 13:07:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12597 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12574 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:07:36 -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 SMTP id OAA08499; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:06:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:06:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Alain G. Fabry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm returns to itself In-Reply-To: <00d701bdd2be$8531e220$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> 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, > Sorry, I guess there must be something wrong...??? > Don't have a .xinitrc-errors file on the system Well, I'm confused.... first you said you're using xdm, then you say that you are using startx. Oops - no you don't - you said you were using .xinitrc. Well, that will fail as xdm looks for ~/.xsession. Try the following: cat > ~/.xsession exec your_window_manager_path_here ^D chmod +x ~/.xsession Then try logging in again. If that fails please look at .xsession-errors and see what it lists. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." - Popular Science, 1891 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message