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To: 'Gerald Smith' <smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu>,
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Subject: RE: Locked in X-login on boot
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You can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the character mode console. There you
can login as root and 'killall xdm' or edit /etc/ttys or figure out a
solution. 

Simon

> 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


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