Re: xdm & login problems

[Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <pedro@mat.uc.pt>]

Andy Saxena writes:
 > On Monday July 30 2001 14:46, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
 > > Hi
 > >
 > > my xdm setup is broken... :(
 > >
 > > When I try to run xdm, it starts nicely showing the login-screen but
 > > when I try to login it fails returning to the xdm login-screen.
 > >
 > > Whats the problem?
 > >
 > > Can you help me? Thank you.
 > 
 > You need to provide more details. When you say "it fails" exactly what 
 > happens? Does the login screen reappear after disappearing for a second? Or 
 > do you get another message?
 > 
 > -Andy
 > 

Trying to provide more info.

i) xdm starts and show the login/password screen :)

ii) I provide my username and password :)

iii) the login/password screen disappears :)

iv) the user's X session does not begin, instead the X servers is
 initialised (it seems like that) and the login/password screen
 reappears :(

I am trying to look in the /etc/X11/xdm/ files for something wrong but
without any luck...

The end of the file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-errors looks like this

 AUDIT: Tue Jul 31 10:28:47 2001: 2324 X: client 3 rejected from local host
   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
 Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
 xmodmap:  unable to open display ':0'
 (--) SVGA: Read OPTION 0x40079121
 xdm error (pid 2371): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe)

Thanks.

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Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
e-mail: pedro@mat.uc.pt