Re: xdm problem

[Stephen Early <sde1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote:

> I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
> system.  I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
> the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
> whatever) and then... it comes back to the xdm prompt.  I can log in
> fine if I do a ctrl-alt-F4 and get back to the text prompt, and
> if I kill xdm, I can do a startx just fine...
> 
> I'm running kernel 1.2.13, xserver_svga, and fvwm2, using config files
> that worked fine under .93r6.

Are you sure that, when you updated the xbase package you EITHER kept all 
the old config files OR installed all the new ones? A mix will probably 
not work.

Look for errors in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/xdm-errors. If you 
can't get it working yourself, mail the contents of these files to me and 
I'll have a look.

Check that your ~/.xsession file is executable as well - this might have 
worked before if it wasn't, but won't now.

Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk