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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HELP X gods! .99 broke my xdm!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.152801.22857@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 15:28:01 GMT
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- In <chuck.724403077@perlab.eas.asu.edu> chuck@perlab.eas.asu.edu (Chuck Lunskis) writes:
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- >operjsl@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
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- ...
-
- >>However, xdm locks up my machine. xdm was working fine on 0.98.5, and nothing
- >>has changed with the xdm (or X, for that matter) stuff since then. I can
- >>start X with startx just fine. But xdm locks it up. Once I was lucky
- >>enough to get some errors in the xdm-errors. Basically, it said 'hung in
- >>XOpenDisplay (:0); aborting' and then 'cannot open display.' Does anyone
- >>know what my problem is here? This is important to me since I have several
- >>users, and xdm is their way to login and X is the environment of choice. Do
- >>I need to recompile the xdm source? Do I have an old version of xdm? I am
- >>running XFREE86-1.1.
-
- >I too am having problems with 0.99 and xdm.
-
- >xdm starts, and I get the login prompt, but can't log in. Most of the keys
- >work, but a few (like 'r', 'RETURN', and some others) don't function. I also
- >get this incessant beeping with every keystroke. startx also works okay for
- >me, it's just xdm with the problem.
-
- Me too. xdm was find under 0.98-pl5, but broke under pl6 and is still dead
- at 0.99. Same symptoms: startx works fine, but xdm hangs with a black
- screen. If I hit return, it sort of comes up, but anything I type comes out
- as garbage in the colsole log window.
-
- It does produce a core file as well...
-
- I'm running the S3 server, version 0.3.
-
- -Chris
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