From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 12:13:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15263 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neale.econ.vt.edu (neale.econ.vt.edu [128.173.173.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15258 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:13:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdmurphy@neale.econ.vt.edu) Received: (from rdmurphy@localhost) by neale.econ.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17414; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:12:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rdmurphy) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:12:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199810292012.PAA17414@neale.econ.vt.edu> From: "Russell D. Murphy" To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Starting X (or xdm) in rc.local Reply-to: rdmurphy@vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I must be missing something obvious. On several FreeBSD systems (running 2.2.2 to 2.2.7) I cannot get X (or xdm) to start from rc.local. More precisely, xdm starts, but the keyboard is inoperable. I cannot login; I cannot switch out of X with ALT-F1, ALT-F2, etc.; I cannot kill xdm. The most response I can get is a message in the xconsole window saying that login dumped core (after, say ALT-F1, then ENTER). The mouse works. I can remove the commands from rc.local, boot, su to root and start xdm manually without any problems. I have a very similar problem on a machine I've tried to setup as an X-terminal; there I only start X, not xdm. The end result is the same: I get a chooser and can select a host, but cannot login. Any suggestions? Russ Murphy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message