From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 9: 8:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA41437B561 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:08:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21329 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:05:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can not login in with XDM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to instructions in Complete FreeBSD, I did the following to start X automatically. In file /etc/rc.local, I added: echo " xdm"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm echo "." <-- I do not know what's this for, but it's in the book. In file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, I add :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt03 I also make sure that the /dev/ttyv3 is marked off in file /etc/ttys. Now after I reboot, I see the XDM login window and I do the following: username password It changes to blank and then back to the XDM login window again! I also tried: username password Please help me to login into X. My machine is running FreeBSD 4.0-Release. I use GNOME + Afterstep. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message