Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:49:33 -0400 From: "Rak, Simon" <srak@cpl.com> To: 'Gerald Smith' <smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu>, "'Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Locked in X-login on boot Message-ID: <1612A004AAE6D211BE2700A0C9D5CCBF196D26@bass.cpl.com>
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You can use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the character mode console. There you can login as root and 'killall xdm' or edit /etc/ttys or figure out a solution. Simon > I have been using 2.2 for a couple of years off and on. The > last few months > I have been using it regularly for typesetting with tex and > emacs under > X-windows. > > I have had no problems at all and have been very pleased with > the way the > system works. > > During this time I have just logged in and then started X by > using startx. > Yesterday I was reading in "The Complete FreeBsd" first ed. > by Greg Lehey > that I could get xdm runing with the login message at boot by changing > /etc/ttys and setting > ttyv4 "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure (page 99) > > and then rebooting or # kill -1 1. > > Well, like a fool, I did this without checking it out > complelely first!! > > The problem is that it goes through all the boot messages, starts the > regular login: message then goes to the X-login window: > > myname.my.domain > > Login: > Password: > > and also presents a console log for myname.my.domain window. > > If I login with a wrong name or password I get the login > incorrect message > in red. When I give the correct login name and password, the window > disappears and it seems that something is happening, but it > just comes back > with the same login window again and I can't get out of this > mode. Either > this is the way it should work and I am just to ignorant to > see what I need > to do, or it is not working correctly. > > If someone out there would give me a hand with this without > having to go and > reinstall completely I would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Gerald Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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