Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 03:29:36 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: xdm does not work with xfce Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1609040214200.40638@bucksport.safeport.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I did a new install of 10.3 and the added packages for xorg and xfce. The level
installed are: xorg-7.7_2, xfce-4.12_1.
Using startx or startxfce4 works fine. Using xdm I can do one login after a boot
if I start xdm manually. If xdm is started frin /etc/ttys I can some time get a
login. The problem appears to be xdm does not free display :0.
To get xdm to work I copied /usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to $home/.xinitrc.
I have a .xsession file contining startxfce4. I commented out the last line in
/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
I have output from xsession-errors and xdm.log. After the second login attempt
.xsession-error is rewriten to contain:
/usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
XDM authorization key matches an existing client!xfce4-session: Cannot
open display: . Type 'xfce4-session --help' for usage.
xdm works on a 10.1 system with xorg-7.7_1 and xfce-4.12_1.
My questions: Is this a known issue? Should this be posted on the X11
mailing list?
_____
Douglas Denault
http://www.safeport.com
doug@safeport.com
Voice: 301-217-9220
Fax: 301-217-9277
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.1609040214200.40638>