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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Brett Taylor wrote:

> 	Feb 23 14:13:19 peloton init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> /dev/ttyv4, sleeping 30 secs
> 
> ttyv4  "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"   xterm   on  secure

For some reason, xdm is immediately quitting.  Try removing it from
/etc/ttys, kill -1 1 to force init to reread the config file, then run xdm
-nodaemon manually and find out why X isn't starting.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major