From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 7:49: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pai-ca.org (pai-ca.org [207.105.169.82]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4466D3FAE for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 07:49:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from PAI-Message_Server by pai-ca.org with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 07 Feb 2000 07:49:44 -0800 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.2.1 (Beta) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 07:49:15 -0800 From: "Tom Vollmer" To: Subject: XDM catch 22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I managed to provoke freeBSD into graphical mode before prompting at the = command line for userid and passward by altering the "tty". The only = problem I have now is I can't gain access to the KDE interface. This is = what I suspect. The line that governs XDM also has a option for secure/uns= ecure settings. I left it at secure setting. Therefore, when XDM starts = and logs me in, KDE, or for that matter any other process, is not = available even to root. It then returns the user to the XDM interface. = Funny thing is that I can't even get to a command line to run "vi" in = order to change the alteration I made. CATCH 22. I there a procedure for stopping to allow a command line prompt with the = volumes mounted that can be initiated through a "hot key" so I might be = able to change the "tty" file back to it's original state? Tom Vollmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message