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- From: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: xdm won't work at all
- Message-ID: <1dof3eINNdfe@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 13:57:02 GMT
- Reply-To: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- Well, I've read all of the previous posts about getting xdm to work and
- have followed all of that advice. I tried eliminating all getty's in my
- inittab and inserting a /bin/doshell /dev/tty1 /usr/X386/bin/sdm in my
- rc. xdm starts up fine, but will not let me login, not as root, not as
- a user, not as anyone. When I press ctrl-alt-backspace to abort X, it
- simply restarts xdm, at which point I'm pretty much screwed.
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- Anybody got a clue as to why this isn't working for me?
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- Jeffrey Little
- operjsl@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
-