From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 19 9:47:16 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 2B9AE152F5 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:47:13 -0800 (PST) (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 KAA04779; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:42:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:42:36 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Kevin Weiss/AUS/Lotus Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm looping error In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Kevin Weiss/AUS/Lotus wrote: > whenever I implement xdm from root, it loops back onto itself. In > other words, xdm starts, I log in (either as myusername or root), type > in the appropriate password, and then: > 1) Screen blanks out for a sec > 2) X Window "seems" to start (i.e. the grey background comes up for a > split second) > 3) The login screen appears again, and I have to login again > 4) Repeats 1-3 again...and again...again... Log in on the console and see what's in your .xsession-errors (and what's in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors. It's hard to tell what's wrong wo/ having at least that information. 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