From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 19 12:32:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27062 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:32:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26934 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07245; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:39:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: Chris Silva cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm problem In-Reply-To: <003401bd8349$958478a0$ddb5a8b6@mis2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Chris Silva wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >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. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message