From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 17:33:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB4637BB48 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:33:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000221012043.BRXZ14903.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:20:43 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Ryan Thompson'" Cc: Subject: RE: Stopping xdm Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:20:30 -0800 Message-ID: <000501bf7c09$d85285e0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks! After three days of struggling with FreeBSD the one thing I'd managed to do was get X to work and I thought I was going to have to unplug the machine to stop that! John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ryan Thompson Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 5:02 PM To: John Purser Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping xdm On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, John Purser wrote: > I just set up X-windows using sysinstall. After exiting from sysinstall I > entered "xdm" at the prompt and a window came up with a sign in prompt. I > signed in as root, hit return, and got another sign in prompt. If I enter a > user's name I can sign on but then all I can do is exit, which brings me > back to another sign in prompt. > > I can't get to any of my virtual terminals and all Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does > is restart X which brings up the same sign on window. > > How do I get out of this? > > John Purser Switch to vty0 with Ctrl-Alt-F1, login as root, and kill the xdm process. (killall xdm, or killall -9 xdm) Then, to fix your original problem, make sure that each user has an executable .xsession file in their home directory. (Man xdm for details on creating these files). Without .xsession, users will see a very bland twm (built in window manager) desktop that, by itself, isn't very functional. I recommend installing another desktop manager or two from ports, such as KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, Enlightenment, etc... -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message