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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help?
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, aux1 wrote:

> I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2 with XFree86 v3.3.1.  I can start the server by
> running xinit or startx, but XDM crashes after login.  I tried using
> XFree86 3.3 alos, but it does the same thing.  After XDM crashes, it
> restarts again, but it still crashes after login.  I notice an xsm.core
> file and a .xsmaXXXXX file in the root dir, but no error messages.

See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors.  That should be logging the
problem.

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