From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 18:33: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.catseye.net (dsl-64-34-131-193.telocity.com [64.34.131.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ACBB37B562 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thl@catseye.net) Received: (qmail 44344 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jul 2000 01:32:52 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:32:52 -0500 From: Timothy Legant To: "Mark A. Hummel" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? Message-ID: <20000722203251.A44213@skitty.catseye.net> Reply-To: Timothy Legant Mail-Followup-To: "Mark A. Hummel" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3978E49A.9BC088C0@ispchannel.com> <20000721222444.A65216@gforce.johnson.home> <39792F33.B7F7FFF4@ispchannel.com> <20000722004411.A526@gforce.johnson.home> <3951AE4D.4226AB6E@ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3951AE4D.4226AB6E@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:12:29AM -0500 X-Editor: Vim (http://www.vim.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark, I'm fairly new to this stuff, so no guarantees here, but... On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:12:29AM -0500, Mark A. Hummel wrote: > > I forgot to mention the file /root/.xsession is executable and contains > only 1 line: Are you logging in to xdm as root? If not, the .xsession file needs to be in the home directory of the user you log in as. > exec startkde I have a vague recollection that the environment in which xdm executes is minimal. In other words, startkde almost assuredly is not in the path, so it fails to start and xdm takes over again. My .xsession reads PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" exec wmaker You probably need to set the path to startkde, or state it explicitly exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde or whatever (sorry - I don't run KDE). HTH, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message