Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:07:54 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@apc.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <199804201107.MAA19607@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <51563276@toto.iv>
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Doug White said: >On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > >> I just downloaded X11 3.3.2 as a port/package, and it automatically starts >> up on ttyvb. I know how to change this, and where it starts and stuff, but >> XDM starts, and it won't let me login. I loging, and it loggs me right >> out. Nothing on the console, and I don't know where the log for X is. > >Copy ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession and make sure it's executable. > Shouldn't you get some kind of default setup (using xsm or something) if you login through xdm without a .xsession file? ISTR that's what happened last time I did a fresh install of 2.2.5. You might also want to check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors (I think) and ~/.xsession-errors just to make sure that nothing else is screwing up. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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