From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 22:08:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B77F16D2DB for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:47:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5C643D46 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:47:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k55Ll9Wd035452 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhunter@malcolm.berkeley.edu) Received: (from mhunter@localhost) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.6/8.13.3/Submit) id k55Ll99W035451 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhunter) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:47:09 -0700 From: Mike Hunter To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060605214709.GC32248@malcolm.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (malcolm.berkeley.edu [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: "Session Menu" xdm/gdm problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:08:31 -0000 Hey everybody, I'm having a frustrating X problem. I installed X via portupgrade and hacked /etc/ttys to enable xdm. I can log in successfully both as root and as a non-priv user, but either way I get to a screen that says: Session Menu Load Session # Delete Session # Break Lock # Default/Fail Safe # Cancel But if I disable xdm and simply use startx, it launches X and my window manager fine. I tried deleting my .xinitrc but that didn't help. I have a feeling some X component isn't in place. I tried compiling gdm as a replacement but that didn't help (same symptoms). I was able to run gdmsetup (or was it gdmconfig?) by logging into gdm in fail-safe mode, and I could change some of the GDM settings, but I didn't see anything that I could twist to fix the problem. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE May 12 xorg-6.9.0