From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 19:12:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tdl.tdl.com (tdl.com [206.180.224.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8133E10 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 19:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from tdl.com (pm4-37.tdl.com [206.180.234.37]) by tdl.tdl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23102 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 19:12:43 -0800 Message-ID: <389F89D8.39F8E62D@tdl.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:13:28 -0800 From: William Richard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM catch 22 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Do break your lines at 72 characters or so.) 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. Did you create a file in your home directory called .xsession? If you did, did you make it executable (mode 7XX)? This is problem number one in XDM setups. > This is what I suspect. The line that governs XDM also has a option > for secure/unsecure settings. I left it at secure setting. XDM cares not for the secure/insecure setting in /etc/ttys. XDM handles its authentication through an internal routine, not through getty. That's why you can run it from the /etc/rc scripts as well. > 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. Have you tried CTRL-ALT-F1? It's just like ALT-F1, except with a CTRL in front of it. Why, you ask? Because the X server traps ALT-F1 for X clients. You might try the article at . I think it's an informative article, but I hear the guy who wrote it is a real prick. > 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? Eh? > Tom Vollmer Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message