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Re: Unable to use display manager



If you are using Xfree 4.0.7 there is a misconfiguration in 
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common-start

exec "$REALSTARTUP"

should not be in quotes

exec $REALSTARTUP

Lance


On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:55:05AM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I am a long time debian user, however I'm having a rather odd problem,
>  perhaps someone here has run into this before. I am running woody,
>  this is a fresh install. Perhaps it's a bug that needs to be reported?
> 
>  I can run X at the prompt (logging in the console), however when I use
>  kdm (or gdm/xdm) and login, it seems to attempt to start up an X session
>  and then quits back to the display manager. This happens no matter what
>  account I login with. (i.e. root, or my user).
> 
>  I don't notice really anythis odd in the /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and
>  I'm stumped.
> 
>  All help appreciated. 
> 
> 
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