Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:40:58 -0600 From: John Lawson <mage@channelpoint.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Can't login to the GUI ... login box comes right back Message-ID: <03E742431696D311BD1B000629382517D434F9@cpex1.channelpoint.com>
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I installed FreeBSD (current) on a 1Gb vmware virtual disk, and realized before very long that I'd run out of space very quiickly. Rather than go to two virtual disks, I decided to create a new empty 2Gb virtual disk, and copy the contents of the original disk to the new disk, eventually deleting the old disk. I did this ... the trickier parts were easy to accomplish using /stand/systeminstall (nice utility!). The actual copying of the files I did with the following command (I had only one, the root, filesystem): find -x / -print | cpio -pdamv /mnt/root I can boot just fine off the new disk, and have since deleted the old virtual disk. The trouble I'm having, however, is with the GUI. If I comment out the launch of xdm on ttyv8 in /etc/ttys, and log into the console, and then type startx, I get a nice GUI and everything seems to be working fine ... but, I want the GUI to launch at boot time, of course. So ... I put the line for ttyv8 and xdm back into /etc/ttys (as documented somewhere on http://www.freebsd.org/, and now I get the login/password window just after booting. When I log into that window, however, the window disappears (as you'd expect), the system thinks for a little while (20 seconds), and then the login box comes right back. I can't find a log file anywhere which might be displaying the error ... Can anyone give me a pointer to where to look? If this were VMS, I could definitely chase down the various log files to find the solution, but, alas, I am new to this U*ix world, and need some help. John Lawson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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