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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:24:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ttyv problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970224232338.4530W-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970223141541.251A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Brett Taylor wrote:

> 	Feb 23 14:13:19 peloton init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> /dev/ttyv4, sleeping 30 secs
> 
> ttyv4  "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"   xterm   on  secure

For some reason, xdm is immediately quitting.  Try removing it from
/etc/ttys, kill -1 1 to force init to reread the config file, then run xdm
-nodaemon manually and find out why X isn't starting.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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