From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 14 07:20:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA01368 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 07:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01363 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 07:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA23747; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:20:02 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:20 EDT Received: from lakes (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA06607 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:50:54 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA04256 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:57:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:57:31 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199608141357.JAA04256@lakes> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: root's .xsession invalid after a clean install (2.1.5) Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've discovered that, after a clean install, root's home directory has a .xsession in it. That's all well and good. Unfortunately, the last line of this .xsession is: exec fvwm Well... fvwm isn't installed yet (it's a package, I suppose). So, you can't log on as root if your running xdm. Perhaps, for the released root directory this should be simply twm, or you shouldn't have a .xsession at all. - Just an observation - - Dave Rivers -