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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 15:39:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        Chris Silva <ras@interaccess.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xdm problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519153607.294H-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <003401bd8349$958478a0$ddb5a8b6@mis2>

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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Chris Silva wrote:

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>Hi everyone,
>	I evoke xdm -nodaemon &  to test this (I've checked my tty's and vt3
>is disabled, actually it don't say off, it says -nodaemon)
>
>	Anywise, If I try to login via xdm, It tries to, then flips back to
>the login screen.  Has anyone had this happen?  I use a Matrox Mill
>set to 1024 mode.

Is your .xsession own by you, and read and executable by you?
Is the last statement not forked?
Have a look at your .xsession-errors file (if one exists)
and also /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors.  This should give you some
cluse to at least look at.

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Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
<A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A>


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