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- From: djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Daniel Jimenez)
- Subject: Re: xdm won't work at all
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.183358.7342@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1dof3eINNdfe@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <coizi01.721498686@convex>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:33:58 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <coizi01.721498686@convex> coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann) writes:
- >In <1dof3eINNdfe@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>Anybody got a clue as to why this isn't working for me?
- >
- >
- >I got exactly the same behaviour with xdm. I've tried to get xdm working
- >every time a post with new hints came up, but without success.
- >I wrote out some error messages on disk from Xstartup_0,
- >Xsession etc. and I found that xdm starts Xstartup (here I got an
- >error message) but *not* Xsession, which should start at least a xterm.
- >
- >Anybody got a working xdm? Please post or mail your Xstartup Xsession
- >Xressources etc.
-
- I got a working xdm. For every account I want t be able to login
- using xdm, I create a file .Xauthority in the home directory of that
- account. This eliminated the problem for me.
- --
- Daniel Jimenez djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
- "I've so much music in my head" -- Maurice Ravel, shortly before his death.
- " " -- John Cage
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