Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: techie@tantivy.stanford.edu, thierry@herbelot.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm problem after making world.. Message-ID: <200203270653.WAA13611@tantivy.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <3CA167F0.384ED6F6@herbelot.com>
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> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:34:24 +0100
> From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
> To: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu>
> CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: xdm problem after making world..
>
> 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 !!!
>
This dosen't explain why it suddenly broke.. (3.0 is quite old by now :-)
This was an upgrade from a 4.5-stable of around 3/6/02 or so..
This is also a one user machine.. no dots in userids..
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