From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 30 23:27:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12422 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12414 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA27070; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:33:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:33:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707010633.AAA27070@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: xdm trouble In-Reply-To: <33B7EFF6.6BD5DED0@physics.umr.edu> References: <33B7EFF6.6BD5DED0@physics.umr.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Wood writes: > I have installed the latest version of XFree86 (3.3), and I can use > startx and xinit. When I try to use xdm, the login screen come up > fine, but after enetering the login and password, the screen goes > blank for a moment then comes back to the login screen. I'm certain this *must* be a FAQ somewhere! Your login has failed for some reason, probably something started by xdm or your X session file. Login on one of the text consoles and look at the file .xdm-errors in your root directory, this is a log of the attempted xdm session. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com