Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:32:52 -0500 From: Timothy Legant <thl@catseye.net> To: "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm@ispchannel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't start xdm on boot ??? Message-ID: <20000722203251.A44213@skitty.catseye.net> In-Reply-To: <3951AE4D.4226AB6E@ispchannel.com>; from mhumm@ispchannel.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:12:29AM -0500 References: <3978E49A.9BC088C0@ispchannel.com> <20000721222444.A65216@gforce.johnson.home> <39792F33.B7F7FFF4@ispchannel.com> <20000722004411.A526@gforce.johnson.home> <3951AE4D.4226AB6E@ispchannel.com>
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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
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