On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:38:31PM -0700, Root wrote:
> Help! I am trying to get xdm to work and having very little success. I have read all the man pages and am right now using the defaults with one little addition from the man page example (to the ~/.xsession file) . I have been running xdm from the console prompt as root and logging in seems to work, ie i don't get a message saying i failed to login, but the xlogin widget disapears and the system just sits there with a pointer and root window.. no window manager or programs. (the ~/.xsession has the mwm win manager and an exterm in it, to supposedly start.) now after several attempts i have locked myself out of my system three times and had to reboot via amiga keys. Is there a safe way of testing xdm configurations without the risk of locking yourself out? 

ctrl-alt-backspacekey should finish the Xserver.

Look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors (or the same file in /var/log/);
it should tell you more..

	-is