Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:37:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can not login in with XDM Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007301433440.27724-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000730214848.A21137@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Zhihui Zhang said on Jul 30, 2000 at 12:05:49: > > > > According to instructions in Complete FreeBSD, I did the following to > > start X automatically. In file /etc/rc.local, I added: > -snip- > > Now after I reboot, I see the XDM login window and I do the following: > > > > username<CR> > > password<CR> > > > > It changes to blank and then back to the XDM login window again! > > Try creating a .xsession file in your home directory (and make it > executable) with the gnome startup program, eg > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session > > You could also edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, but this way is > simpler if you're not worrying about other users. > I have just tried your suggestion. Unfortunately it does not work. After I input the password, the gnome-session seems working. But after a longer while than before, it comes back to the XDM login window again. Maybe I should add something like afterstep in some configuration file as well. One good thing I just find is that I can press ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to other virtual terminal. Then I can kill xdm using vt03. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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