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Re: xdm & login problems



Hi

I also got the same error when I uninstalled xdm,  and
re-installed it later. I couldn't find any solution
till now and I am also interested in a solution. I
installed gdm as a substitute for temporary operation.

Rds,

Deb
--- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <pedro@mat.uc.pt> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
> e-mail: pedro@mat.uc.pt
> 
> 
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