From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 8:26:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.NWC.WHECN.EDU (unknown [146.166.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24B0614D1F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu) Received: from [137.88.65.12] by mail.NWC.WHECN.EDU (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ua137248 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:25:05 +0100 X-Sender: smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Freebsd-questions@FreeBsd.org From: smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu (Gerald Smith) Subject: Locked in X-login on boot Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:25:05 +0100 Message-Id: <15250588214180@NWC.WHECN.EDU> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been using 2.2 for a couple of years off and on. The last few months I have been using it regularly for typesetting with tex and emacs under X-windows. I have had no problems at all and have been very pleased with the way the system works. During this time I have just logged in and then started X by using startx. Yesterday I was reading in "The Complete FreeBsd" first ed. by Greg Lehey that I could get xdm runing with the login message at boot by changing /etc/ttys and setting ttyv4 "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure (page 99) and then rebooting or # kill -1 1. Well, like a fool, I did this without checking it out complelely first!! The problem is that it goes through all the boot messages, starts the regular login: message then goes to the X-login window: myname.my.domain Login: Password: and also presents a console log for myname.my.domain window. If I login with a wrong name or password I get the login incorrect message in red. When I give the correct login name and password, the window disappears and it seems that something is happening, but it just comes back with the same login window again and I can't get out of this mode. Either this is the way it should work and I am just to ignorant to see what I need to do, or it is not working correctly. If someone out there would give me a hand with this without having to go and reinstall completely I would appreciate it. Thanks, Gerald Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message