Re: removing xdm

["Christian T . Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

Good news everybody,
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:29:46PM -0500, Moses Wildermuth wrote:

while playing with x4.0 and going back to 3.3.6, I could reproduce this
problem:
> As sson as Debian boots up, it started running xdm.  This opened the X
> screen and put a huge window in the middle of the screen with my machine's
> name at the top.  Welcome to Debian2.2-wolfysworld.  This asks me for my
> login and  password.  If I put incorrect values there, it says so, if I put
> correct values there(as if logging in on a regular VT) it loops around and
> asks me again and again and again forever.  I don't know why this does not
> happen to you.  You are lucky I guess

and I found the problem. I did not have the xterm package installed.

Christian