Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:24:36 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Chris Wood <cjwood@physics.umr.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm trouble Message-ID: <33B8A2A4.1754@barcode.co.il> References: <33B7EFF6.6BD5DED0@physics.umr.edu>
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Chris Wood wrote: > > I have installed the latest version of XFree86 (3.3), and I can use > startx and xinit. > When I try to use xdm, the login screen come up fine, but after > enetering the login and > password, the screen goes blank for a moment then comes back to the > login screen. Make sure that ~/.xsession (if it exists) is executeable. Also take a look at .xsession-errors (or .xdm-errors if it doesn't even get around to starting xsession for some reason). Most of the time, this means your .xsession crashed (remember, when .xsession exists, your session ends!) > > I an also having trouble installing ports for X. When doing make, it > stops with an error > that it can't find the file xpm.h. I tried to install the graphic/xpm > port and the same error > occurred. Did I miss something i the initial FreeBSD installation? > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Nadav
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