From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 22:36:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-198-26.noos.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB4637B405 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11191; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:34:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3CA167F0.384ED6F6@herbelot.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:34:24 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Vaughan Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm problem after making world.. References: <200203262207.OAA11814@tantivy.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Vaughan wrote: > > A couple days ago, I did an upgrade from a -stable build of earlier this > month, and since then I have not been able to get xdm to work at all. > > When xdm is started, I get a quick flash of a background screen, and then > it goes blank. this repeats until xdm is killed. > when starting, xdm chown's the console, which was breaking on one of my machines, where the user name contains a period ('.'). chown still thinks the dot is the separator between the user name and the group name. My cure was to rebuild chown from the src tree (in src/usr.sbin/chown/), with the option CFLAGS+=-DSUPPORT_DOT commented out of the Makefile HTH TfH PS : FreeBSD supports dots in user names since 3.0 - chown still does not !!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message