Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:23:08 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bokui@sin.photronics.com Subject: Re: xdm Problem Message-ID: <s71fbd7c.054@usgs.gov>
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You might have a look at=20 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D111191+0+/usr/local/www/db/te= xt/1998/freebsd-questions/19980906.freebsd-questions If this is anywhere near what your problem is. if the above link is broken then go to=20 http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html and search with key words "xdm and Problem" without the quotes. You could also remove all .X files from your home directory and let the = system use the defaults, our you could try failsafe login. I've often encountered this when my users had wrong permissions on their = dot files, especially .Xresources. I've also seen this when the app-defaul= t dir was not present or had wrong perms. The failsafe login was designed to get around this problem of munged files = and give you a simple window to correct the problem. >>> Zheng Bokui <bokui@sin.photronics.com> 4/23/99 2:53:10 PM >>> Hi there! I'm new to FreeBSD and just installed FreeBSD 3.1-stable to an old Compaq Prolinea 5100e PC ( with 32M RAM and 2.5G HDD) via FTP. The installation was quite straightforward and I also configured XFree86 with XF86Setup(run from /stand/sysinstall), no error messages found during the setup. I tried to run XDM (tried both from /etc/rc/local or /etc/ttys) and actually got the login screen (The same as I got from Linux). The problem is I was kicked out immediately after I login. It just displayed the cool login screen. I then telnet from another machine and found that the login session was not there and it even didn't shown when I run last command. In /var/log/messages, I found: Apr 23 11:57:15 freebsd /kernel: pid 231 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Apr 23 12:03:23 freebsd /kernel: pid 227 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Apr 23 13:38:57 freebsd /kernel: pid 287 (xsm), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) In /root, I got: $ ls -l xsm* -rw------- 1 root wheel 536576 Apr 23 13:38 xsm.core I tried running XF86Setup several times with different parameters but couldn't solve the problem. I also compared FreeBSD with my Linux machines but couldn't find any clue. Any hints and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Bokui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org=20 with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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