From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 2 13:08:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CBCAD9B29 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 13:08:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail-wm0-x22d.google.com (mail-wm0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECEEEAC7 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 13:08:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: by mail-wm0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id p138so104545770wmb.1 for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:08:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bris-ac-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:message-id:to:subject:reply-to:in-reply-to; bh=QuiEg4M6QpX0AqlN/Eo57n5/KpZtZRQqRCLoVmRsklM=; b=NUNXtHrHqt/mYUgLYc7e28Tb/tGj1tQvJC+/f/Y4SDSPrAXgUcs/XfjhMMKE4hdGGq ZhDOOWpT9ix2TmmfPE0zfXSIDsTVnjltu7uGpiRoJ2joSuKXA9b2U0L7hRQDqqwEofJs nVsZT1V8e6Vp451kcF+VWQLpG1PwlL7TaOndnauQLL8levP0HV+4pldpU82WDCmIQDKI eUvm5lzVDbR4kvFwjbfy58X23jFjZu2sa8S+l4WJ2u9T5N9WSSgGj0DTM3bAnzAT7S1V c/Z5PwmimuZslytYMFNr7X3UERi30KUNBjfC2v+lB85qvbE7y39dfpBcvBE77ypkbhna Wkag== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:message-id:to:subject:reply-to :in-reply-to; bh=QuiEg4M6QpX0AqlN/Eo57n5/KpZtZRQqRCLoVmRsklM=; b=Kv/4svjU25/wAPUk3v2aLlcUKj2Husznc3HVJU5YsiMbI5fUyFRxYKuBB391sGa0kS Sb3ir9/bAAyoFR+1EFDOgS0iC2F+7KP3HbXb0NUt7uX/czZt3g9Cv0Pvjh5QdWTdYWQF 61fIMh9MI/ljGZ+Ai8ZuE1hoyjrJwE+OsYdEu113SYtXdRiyZQYmaDQo9D6OGGhYp7YN j0xSmU2IQ+gJGTYGKCywQw68peT1XEO9lQfJb6ojg3fzzMj21eTImxTcdKvSExgxHf/B NHZvm1HWm/KopOfT4/0mTKeU5eAq85s0R0TJp8sNueNBjD6PQZjqHWwOcxZ5Y2d5sKe7 Jc9Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RkQV7I/CcGeq1mbbqD+qDjZqmrgJimETXTuGTTTfBnWy83iOmkjlkS+p6z07O6V2TNG X-Received: by 10.194.155.9 with SMTP id vs9mr16368175wjb.56.1475413722971; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk (mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.170.4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id va3sm29469271wjb.18.2016.10.02.06.08.42 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u92D8fsn017218; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:08:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u92D8fF5017217; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:08:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:08:41 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201610021308.u92D8fF5017217@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@edvax.de Subject: Re: recent security updates to 10.3-RELEASE broke xdm? Reply-To: mexas@bris.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <20161002144513.05902af0.freebsd@edvax.de> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:08:45 -0000 >From freebsd@edvax.de Sun Oct 2 13:48:31 2016 >> My xdm doesn't want to login me anymore. >> As soon as I enter the passwd, xdm reboots >> and presents me with the login prompt again. > >Can you start X without using XDM (i. e., by "startx")? Yes, startx works fine. I'd still prefer to get xdm working again. Apparently startx doesn't allow xconsole access to /dev/consile. Anyway, this is what I get: ####> cat .xsession #!/bin/tcsh source ~/.tcshrc exec ~/.xinitrc ####> cat .xinitrc xautolock -locker slock & xconsole & exec mwm ####> cat .xsession-errors Protocol not supported by server Error: Can't open display: :0 Protocol not supported by server Couldn't connect to :0 Protocol not supported by server mwm: Could not open display. ####> In fact startx works fine even without ~/.xinitrc. In that case it opens some default windows and uses twm. /var/log/xdm.log is not much help: xdm info (pid 917): Starting X server on :0 xdm info (pid 4040): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 xdm info (pid 4040): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole xdm info (pid 4057): executing session /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession xdm info (pid 4040): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" after 169 requests (162 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Many thanks for your help Anton