From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 07:53:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4DC37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9033443FBF for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:53:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 10623 invoked by uid 65534); 27 Jun 2003 14:53:36 -0000 Received: from B5df1.pppool.de (HELO there) (213.7.93.241) by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 27 Jun 2003 16:53:36 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Benjamin Walkenhorst To: racerx@makeworld.com, dan@slightlystrange.org Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:53:21 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <200306262240.26449.racerx@makeworld.com> <20030627131044.GB73549@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <3EFC4361.5040506@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <3EFC4361.5040506@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20030627145337.9033443FBF@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kdm on bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:53:39 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 27. June 2003 15:15, Chris wrote: > >>>The corresponding entry in my /etc/ttys looks like this: > >>> > >>>ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure > >No - did you also change "off" to "on"? Tell your kernel to reread > >/etc/ttys (among others): > Ahhh, my bad,. I didn't set the "off" to "on". Thanks much to all that > offered me answers on this one. Uh, that was my bad as well. ;-/ I wonder why my entry in /etc/ttys was set to "off" ("uuuuh, it really makes me wonder..."). What makes me wonder is that xdm *does* start up correctly on my machine... I can only think of Linux having problems reading UFS-partitions, but I cannot really imagine Linux coming up with such *weird* read-errors... Well, I'm glad your problem is solved now, Kind regards, Benjamin - -- "Der Hoffnung beraubt sein, heißt noch nicht - verzweifeln." (Albert Camus) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE+/FpioYumWdMvhMQRAkvaAJwP5EnGM+pKqp+wHd+OdYbx3P7+WQCcCIeg XauMk53AyIYrikvX2BSMiXE= =R7DI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----