From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 5:53:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAFB37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47B443E75 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g97Cr3Oo070112; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:53:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:53:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: suken woo Cc: freebsd-current , david@catwhisker.org Subject: Re: xdm can not login on current In-Reply-To: <3DA14D47.1020108@mail.gddsn.org.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, suken woo wrote: > >>xdm broken on current when login . i knew this is the pam module > >>problem,but how could i fix it? > > > >Chances are, you built your X11 with an old -CURRENT system, and since > >then the ABI for the PAM stuff has changed in -CURRENT, so your old X11 no > >longer talks happily with your new PAM. Remove and rebuild X11 > >(specifically xdm) and see if that helps. Of course, you don't provide > >any real details as to what the failure mode is, making this a little hard > >to debug. You might want to take a look at /var/log/messages and see if > >xdm gives any specific errors. Yup, looks like your xdm needs rebuilding. Did you try that and see what happens? One hazard to running -CURRENT is occasionally you become obliged to rebuild lots of applications when assumptions change.. Most people bumped into this a few months ago, I think, so perhaps you just updated world recently? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message