Re: xdm doesn't start properly

[Troy <troy@dakota.net>]

Do you have a working X server and your DIPSLAY variable set?

If I unset my DISPLAY, xdm dies, and lets me know in
/var/log/xdm-errors

feldspar:/usr/doc/smail# echo $DISPLAY

feldspar:/usr/doc/smail# xdm          
feldspar:/usr/doc/smail# ps auxw | grep xdm
root      7017  0.0  1.3  2228   868  ?  S    00:29   0:00 xdm 
root      7038  0.0  0.5   864   356  p4 S    00:30   0:00 grep xdm 
feldspar:/usr/doc/smail# tail -n 2 /var/log/xdm-errors 
xdm error (pid 7017): server unexpectedly died
xdm error (pid 7017): Server for display :0 can't be started,
session disabled

Does startx work?  If you make up a 'bogus' display, will xdm load 
(i.e. `export DISPLAY=192.168.1.1:0.0`)?

Hope this helps,
troy

BG Lim wrote:
> 
> Thanks for writing.
> 
> I'm not sure what table you are referring too. But xdm is not running as
> shown by ps -a. And using the xdm script in init.d does nothing too. The
> xdm-errors file is empty. As you can tell, I did investigate the problem
> to the limits of my knowledge before I asked the list. I suspect it to be
> an internal problem of xdm or a function of some not comman setting I'm
> missing.
> 
> By the way, kdm does the same thing.
> 
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> >Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table?  If not
> >do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start  That should give the logon screen for X.
> >Let me know how things work.  also if you suspect xdm errors look at the
> >file /var/log/xdm-errors.
> >Hope this helps
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been using Debian 1.3 now for some time. Recently, I thought of using
> >> xdm to log on instead. However when I type xdm, nothing happens and I get
> >> the prompt back.
> >>
> >> So, as root, I typed 'xdm -debug 1' and this is the result:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> creating socket 177
> >> xdm error (pid 244): error 98 binding socket address 177
> >> Nothing left to do, exiting
> >> #
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me? I haven't tampered with any of the default settings,
> >> except to insert 'start-xdm' in the config file in the X preferences
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> BG
> >>
> >>
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