Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:21:38 -0600 From: "Alain G. Fabry" <fabry@coserve.org> To: <Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk>, "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com>, <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xdm returns to xdm after login Message-ID: <00de01bf61d0$194223c0$5531d5c6@coserve.org> References: <0025686A.00512F67.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <rd6iu0r4cri.fsf@world.std.com>
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Sorry, My bad, he was right, for some reason I only made it executable for go and not for the user. chmod u+x .xsession solved my problem Sorry, my mistake. Alain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com> To: <Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk>; <fabry@coserve.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:31 AM Subject: Re: xdm returns to xdm after login > Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk writes: > > > Your .xsession needs to be executable! > > He specifically said: > > > .xsession is executable. I can run startx successfully. > > So that's not it. > > Since startx uses .xinitrc instead of .xsession, there may be some > difference there. In my opinion, there are three things he should > check: > 1) .xsession-errors : the problem may be spelled out in there > 2) debugging .xsession : put debugging statements (I like to use > "touch" at various checkpoints to see that > the script is actually running to various > points) > 3) link .xsession to .xinitrc, since that's known to work, and see > what happens > > If I had to guess, I would say that he backgrounds all the commands in > the .xsession. This will produce the symptoms he describes, because > it lets .xsession run to completion before he gets a chance to do > anything. When .xsession runs to completion, it resets the X server, > which will end the xdm session. So the key is to end the script with > a command that *isn't* backgrounded; the window manager is a > convenient item for this. [Just remove the '&' from the end of the > last line.] > > Be well. > Lowell > [sitting about a quarter mile from Raytheon's corporate headquarters] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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