Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:12:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Russell D. Murphy" <rdmurphy@vt.edu> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Starting X (or xdm) in rc.local Message-ID: <199810292012.PAA17414@neale.econ.vt.edu>
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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
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