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- From: maf@tabatha.MAE.CWRU.EDU (Mark Fullmer)
- Subject: Re: Some more xdm questions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.035912.11003@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul16.015924.11813@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 03:59:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul16.015924.11813@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tselling@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Teresa Selling) writes:
- >I have been constantly plagued with problems with xdm. IBM first suggested
- >that I recompile xdm. That took care of the <defunct> process problem,
- >but I still have trouble getting past the Login Widget. It keeps coming
- >back and won't bring up the xsession. I have found that if I set
-
- To summarize an evening with the same problem, digging through src and
- doing dumps of network connections:
-
- try invoking xdm as 'xdm -debug 9999` (with source in hand ofcourse).
-
- The ibm.cf for X11R5 sets ProjectRoot, so the binaries end up in
- /usr/local/bin. After installing everything, and then noticing this,
- binaries that should be in /usr/bin/X11 got moved. (lib got moved too).
-
- anyways, the debug output shows:
-
- (alot deleted)
-
- DISPLAY=charlotte:0
- HOME=/u/maf
- USER=maf
- PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb
- SHELL=/usr/local/bin/zsh
-
- (more deleted).
-
- Now Xsession (or whatever you called it) has a line like
- 'exec xterm -blah -blah'
-
- xterm isn't in the path...oops
-
- ----
-
- The man pages for xdm don't help until you understand what's supposed to
- be happening....it's really easier to read the source...
-
- Now, even the chooser works.
-
- mark
-
-