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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:27:25 -0700
From:      "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
To:        "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm@ispchannel.com>
Cc:        Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Can't start xdm on boot ???
Message-ID:  <397C6E6D.BE9076D9@home.com>
References:  <200007221652.LAA03068@gforce.johnson.home> <3952B651.F6BD1FFD@ispchannel.com>

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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
> 
>


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