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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail From: rmc@crl.com (Jeff Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: xdmstarting loops Date: 24 Jan 1994 10:50:16 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest] Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2i1598$8q8@crl2.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl2.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] After installing XFree86-2.0, with the xdm-des option, the machine seemed to continue functioning o.k. I made the suggested changes to the rc.local to start the xdm on bootup. While working on the Xconfig file, the machine rebooted (unplanned) and came back up went through all of the startup untill it hit xdmstarting local daemons followed by the date and then the screen flashes every few seconds like it is stuck in a cycle. If I boot to floppy and mount the hard drive, i can comment out the lines in the rc.local dealing with xdm and everything works fine. I have also tried reinstalling the xdm archive with no luck. Can someone please explain what xdm is and what i need to do to correct this problem. tnx