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- From: leitz@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Herbert Leitz)
- Subject: Re: HELP X gods! .99 broke my xdm!
- Message-ID: <leitz.724505421@charly>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- References: <1gjr8mINNoa@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <chuck.724403077@perlab.eas.asu.edu> <1992Dec15.152801.22857@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:30:21 GMT
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- ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
-
- >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:
-
- >...
-
- >>>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 had exactly the same problems (first "can't open display..." and then
- the beeping). Finally I found a working configuration, but don't
- ask me why it works. I found it by trial and error.
-
- 1. add the following line to /etc/rc.local
- /usr/X386/bin/xdm < /dev/tty1 # yes, no -nodaemon
-
- 2. uncomment the line for tty1 in /etc/inittab
-
- xdm still locks up, if it is started by hand, though.
- This is strange, because xdm behaved just the other way around
- under 0.98-pl[1-5]:
- It wouldn't start from rc.local, only by hand.
-
- Any explanations?
-
- --
- Herbert.Leitz@physik.uni-muenchen.de
-