Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:23:08 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bokui@sin.photronics.com Subject: Re: xdm Problem Message-ID: <s71fbd7c.054@usgs.gov>
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You might have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=111191+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-questions/19980906.freebsd-questions If this is anywhere near what your problem is. if the above link is broken then go to http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html and search with key words "xdm and Problem" without the quotes. You could also remove all .X files from your home directory and let the system use the defaults, our you could try failsafe login. I've often encountered this when my users had wrong permissions on their dot files, especially .Xresources. I've also seen this when the app-default dir was not present or had wrong perms. The failsafe login was designed to get around this problem of munged files and give you a simple window to correct the problem. >>> Zheng Bokui <bokui@sin.photronics.com> 4/23/99 2:53:10 PM >>> Hi there! I'm new to FreeBSD and just installed FreeBSD 3.1-stable to an old Compaq Prolinea 5100e PC ( with 32M RAM and 2.5G HDD) via FTP. The installation was quite straightforward and I also configured XFree86 with XF86Setup(run from /stand/sysinstall), no error messages found during the setup. I tried to run XDM (tried both from /etc/rc/local or /etc/ttys) and actually got the login screen (The same as I got from Linux). The problem is I was kicked out immediately after I login. It just displayed the cool login screen. I then telnet from another machine and found that the login session was not there and it even didn't shown when I run last command. In /var/log/messages, I found: Apr 23 11:57:15 freebsd /kernel: pid 231 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Apr 23 12:03:23 freebsd /kernel: pid 227 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Apr 23 13:38:57 freebsd /kernel: pid 287 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) In /root, I got: $ ls -l xsm* -rw------- 1 root wheel 536576 Apr 23 13:38 xsm.core I tried running XF86Setup several times with different parameters but couldn't solve the problem. I also compared FreeBSD with my Linux machines but couldn't find any clue. Any hints and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Bokui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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