Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:30:49 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting Message-ID: <20090217163049.GA31157@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090213101308.GA52940@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090213101308.GA52940@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits > immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log. > > I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output: > > # xdm -debug 1 > DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value /var/log/xdm.log > DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true > DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value /var/run/xdm.pid > DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true > DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm > DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true > DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true > DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm- > keys > DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value /usr/local/lib/X11/xd > m/Xaccess > DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value > DisplayManager.randomDevice/DisplayManager.RandomDevice value /dev/urandom > DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm > /libXdmGreet.so > DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15 > DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false > DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value su -m nobody -c /usr/local/ > lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling > Nothing left to do, exiting > # Looking at "xdm -debug .." logs on the net it seems the next line after the Willing should be creating socket 177 Perhaps xdm exits because it cannot create socket 177? Is that plausible? How can I test this? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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