Re: XDM

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

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