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- From: sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Login failure
- Message-ID: <34016@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:04:56 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In <9211101605.AA09968@wankle>, Bret Clark (bclark@wankle.ctron.com) writes:
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- >>I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
- >>running 4.0.1. He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
- >>he's back at the login menu. (Even with no password, he fails.)
- >
- > I have just starting seeing the problem Iris INDIGO. It appears to be with the
- > program pandora. I have not been able to track it down. .login and .chsrc has
- > nothing to do with the problem. The only solution I have been able to find is
- > to disable visual login under /etc/config/visuallogin or to reformat and reload
- > the OS (Not a great fix).
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- You don't mention if you're having the problem with one user, or all?
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- Try looking at the file /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors. If the xdm is unable to
- run the window manager, it should put an error in here.
-
- -shoshana
- shoshana@pdi.com
- Shoshana Abrass
- Pacific Data Images, Sunnyvale, CA
-