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- From: rick@mel1.geg.mot.com (Rick Rankin)
- Subject: Re: Can't get xdm to work - help wanted
- Organization: Motorola, Mech. Eng. Lab.
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:18:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.181826.21305@schbbs.mot.com>
- Keywords: xdm
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- In article <alb.24.716133148@uvm.edu>, alb@uvm.edu (Allan L. Bazinet) writes:
- |> Would some kind soul please explain to me how to get xdm to work on AIX 3.2,
- |> X11R4? The documentation is sketchy, and the support center doesn't do
- |> X windows, apparently. My local SE does them even less :).
- |>
- |> Basically, I've got the daemon running, and all of the config files are in
- |> /usr/lib/X11/xdm. I have no entries in my Xservers file, as the system in
- |> question is a fileserver, and our Xterm 130's do XDMCP. From my
- |> understanding of the manpage, I don't need any entries with this
- |> configuration.
- |>
- |> I get a login window, and the login authentication works fine. However,
- |> after a successful login, there is a pause, a blink, and the login
- |> screen is presented again. This can be repeated any number of times.
- |>
- |> My config files are very plain-vanilla. Rebooting the @#$%@% Xterm every
- |> time I log out is getting very old indeed; I'd like to get xdm working.
- |>
- |> -------------------------------------
- |> Allan Bazinet, University of Vermont
- |> 'We look for things -- to make us go.'
-
- I'm using the X11R5 version of xdm and I've not used the R4 version, so I'm not sure
- that my advice will apply to you, but here goes...
-
- There should be a file in your home directory called "$HOME/.xsession". This file
- contains various programs you want to have executed when the X server starts, similar
- to a .profile file. When an error occurs, a file called ".xsession-errors" should be
- created in your home directory also. Looking at this file may give you some clues as
- to what's happening. If the .xsession file exists, it must be executable, i.e.,
-
- chmod a+x .xsession
-
- If the .xsession file is not executable, it will result in exactly the symptom you
- describe.
-
- I don't know if this will help, but good luck.
-
- Rick Rankin
- Motorola
- 602-441-5726
- rick@mel1.geg.mot.com
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