From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 18:14: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.hili.com (venus.hili.com [205.147.154.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E3E14DAF for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:14:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@stumpweb.com) Received: from bob-pc (ts1-06.hili.com 205.147.154.75) by venus.hili.com (VMailer) via SMTP id F0158E251; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:17:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Bob Stump" To: Subject: RE: xdm looping error Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:13:11 -0500 Message-ID: <000001be7340$5e70bb20$01fba8c0@bob-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- ... >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... It sounds like there's something in your window manager's config that won't let the window manager start up; some typo or something - I've had that happen... which window manager are you using from .xsession ? Bob Stump bob@stumpweb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message