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Date:      Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:06:36 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@panam.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xdm returns to itself
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9808281403230.8462-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00d701bdd2be$8531e220$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>

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Hi,

> Sorry, I guess there must be something wrong...???
> Don't have a .xinitrc-errors file on the system

Well, I'm confused.... first you said you're using xdm, then you say that
you are using startx.  Oops - no you don't - you said you were using
.xinitrc.  Well, that will fail as xdm looks for ~/.xsession.  

Try the following:

cat > ~/.xsession
exec your_window_manager_path_here
^D
chmod +x ~/.xsession

Then try logging in again.

If that fails please look at .xsession-errors and see what it lists.

Brett
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