From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 20: 4:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server3.safepages.com (server3.safepages.com [216.127.146.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03E637B6D6 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@bayouhome.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (1Cust225.tnt5.new-orleans.la.da.uu.net [63.17.16.225]) by server3.safepages.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DC53652A; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01108; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:04:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:03:23 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: "Mark A. Hummel" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? Message-ID: <20000722220323.A1080@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Johnson , "Mark A. Hummel" , freebsd-questions References: <200007221652.LAA03068@gforce.johnson.home> <3952B651.F6BD1FFD@ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3952B651.F6BD1FFD@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:58:57PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:58:57PM -0500 ^^^^^^ You need to check your date setting. Mark A. Hummel wrote: > Yes, I did...same results, but I did have an error in /etc/ttys. I > obviously wasn't paying enough attention to your instructions and > didn't change "off" to "on" for ttyv8. When I did, xdm came up on > boot prompting me for a login username and password. When I entered > one, it looked like KDE was going to start, but for some reason, it > didn't. Instead, xdm looped back to the login again. No matter how > many or which user names I typed in, it take my input and loops back > to another blank login screen. Any ideas? We're getting further down > the road. Take a look at ~/.xsession-errors and see what that tells you. The permissions on your ~/.xsession file should look like "-rwxr--r--". -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message