From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 22:53:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tantivy.stanford.edu (tantivy.Stanford.EDU [171.64.234.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327E837B417 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA13611; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:53:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:53:21 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <200203270653.WAA13611@tantivy.stanford.edu> To: techie@tantivy.stanford.edu, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: xdm problem after making world.. Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3CA167F0.384ED6F6@herbelot.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:34:24 +0100 > From: Thierry Herbelot > To: Bob Vaughan > CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: xdm problem after making world.. > > Bob Vaughan wrote: > > > > A couple days ago, I did an upgrade from a -stable build of earlier this > > month, and since then I have not been able to get xdm to work at all. > > > > When xdm is started, I get a quick flash of a background screen, and then > > it goes blank. this repeats until xdm is killed. > > > > when starting, xdm chown's the console, which was breaking on one of my > machines, where the user name contains a period ('.'). chown still > thinks the dot is the separator between the user name and the group > name. > > My cure was to rebuild chown from the src tree (in src/usr.sbin/chown/), > with the option CFLAGS+=-DSUPPORT_DOT commented out of the Makefile > > HTH > > TfH > > PS : FreeBSD supports dots in user names since 3.0 - chown still does > not !!! > This dosen't explain why it suddenly broke.. (3.0 is quite old by now :-) This was an upgrade from a 4.5-stable of around 3/6/02 or so.. This is also a one user machine.. no dots in userids.. -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | kc6sxc@w6yx.ampr.org | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message