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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFrCusePROBLEM : Xfree resetting on user login Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:49:45 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3sblcp$ip@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3s8p0j$j7o@oege.htsa.hva.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3s8p0j$j7o@oege.htsa.hva.nl>, Arjan Maks <arjanma@htsa.htsa.hva.nl> wrote: >Here's the problem : > >whenever a user tries to login on X, the X server resets itself. >The only one able to login is root... The .xsession file of the user is mangled. Try starting a `failsafe' session by entering the password with Control-Return or <F1> instead of a plain return. Watch the xdm-errors output (normally in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm) for error messages. -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)