From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 2:28:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C82614D9E for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: by eagle.phc.igs.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id A02FF1975; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:25:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eagle.phc.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D95841; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:25:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:25:07 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle To: Juan Kuuse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm got stuck and restarts at logon In-Reply-To: <010001be8ac9$7a5d5870$6d1e48d8@ps1.QUIK> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Juan Kuuse wrote: > A newbie question (certainly answered before, but I didn't find anything > searching): > > Trying to run xdm, it accepts the login, but starts all over again. > > As said in "The Complete FreeBSD", I change/add as follows: > > In /etc/ttys, I disable one of the terminals: > ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure > > In /etc/rc.local, I enable xdm: > #put your local stuff here > echo " xdm"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm > > In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, I configure xdm: > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt03 > > If I run xdm manually, with: > xdm -nodaemon & > I got the same result (i.e. xdm just accepts the login and then loops, > doesn't let me in) > > Any suggestions what to do, anyone? > Some configuration missing? > > /Juan Kuuse > As i am running slightly behind on my email someone may have already answered this.. your .Xsession file needs to be set executable.. xdm trys to run it not parse it rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message