From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 9:27:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.sdca.home.com (mail2.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4B637BA98 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RaymundoVega@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.252.61]) by mail2.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000724162726.IDDR4673.mail2.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:27:26 -0700 Message-ID: <397C6E6D.BE9076D9@home.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:27:25 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark A. Hummel" Cc: Glenn Johnson , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? References: <200007221652.LAA03068@gforce.johnson.home> <3952B651.F6BD1FFD@ispchannel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem once and solve it by making the .xsession an executable file. chmod 700 .xsession good luck raymundo "Mark A. Hummel" wrote: > > Yes, I did...same results, but I did have an error in /etc/ttys. I > obviously wasn't paying enough attention to your instructions and didn't > change "off" to "on" for ttyv8. When I did, xdm came up on boot > prompting me for a login username and password. When I entered one, it > looked like KDE was going to start, but for some reason, it didn't. > Instead, xdm looped back to the login again. No matter how many or > which user names I typed in, it take my input and loops back to another > blank login screen. Any ideas? We're getting further down the road. > > Mark > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message