Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:09:04 +0800 From: Gong Wei <ccegongw@nus.edu.sg> To: "'mi@aldan.algebra.com'" <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: KDM and FreeBSD 3.3 Message-ID: <762388C091FAD01180FF00A02462137801AC5B8C@exchange.nus.edu.sg>
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Hi all, Yes there is a file /tmp/xses- created which contains a single line of output:"Error: cannot open display". Since this means /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession has been called. So I've modified that file, add in a line near the top "set > /tmp/report". After that, I restar the KDM, try login, got this in the /tmp/report file: ===================== MAIL=/var/mail/ccegongw PS1=$ OPTIND=1 PS2=> BLOCKSIZE=K TERM=su PATH=/home/ccegongw/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.XauthJa4048 IFS= ============ However, if I kill the KDM and start a XDM instead, this is what I get from the /tmp/report file: ==================== USER=ccegongw HOME=/home/ccegongw PS1=$ OPTIND=1 PS2=> LOGNAME=ccegongw PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bi n DISPLAY=:0 SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash IFS= =========== I am really surprised since some important environment variables are not set when using KDM. PS: I can start kde without any problem if login through xdm. The last line of my ~/.xsession file is "ssh-agent /usr/local/bin/startkde". Thanks to all for your time and effort! -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail Teterin [mailto:mi@aldan.algebra.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:16 AM To: Gong Wei Subject: Re: KDM and FreeBSD 3.3 Gong Wei once wrote: > I've searched the KDE mailing list, seems someone also facing the same > problem. Too bad he said he had solve it, by looking at the two error > log file (xdm-error, ~/.xsession-error). Check for the /tmp/*xsession-error* too. Sometimes, it may go there. Also, the name of the selected session (kde, failsafe) is given to the .xsession script as an argument. Is you ~/.Xclients looking at the arguments at all? Also, is /usr/X11R6/bin in the PATH? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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