Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:36:40 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Tom Vollmer <Tom.Vollmer@pai-ca.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM catch 22 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002071233050.45349-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <s89e7918.012@pai-ca.org>
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Hi, On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Tom Vollmer wrote: > 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/unsecure 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 do not really understand what you've written. Xdm runs fine w/ a tty marked secure. Do you see the xdm login window? When you log in what happens? Have you switched to a different tty (ctrl-alt-f#) to login via the console? My guess is that you don't have your .xsession marked executable but it's hard to determine from what you've written. Change to a console window and chmod +x .xsession and try again. If that doesn't work we'll need to know more to determine the problem. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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