>> It wasn't only the problem of blanking but it just never logged
>> in, although the password was correct. On the other hand, when I
>> entered an incorrect password it said it, so somehow the thing
>> stays in a loop or something. Thanks.
>
>On Ultrix, there was an xdm-errors log file in the xdm setup directory
>(/usr/lib/X11/xdm I think).  Sometimes that contained useful clues.

There are no errors logged on xdm-errors.

>My Sun Sparc-1 used to do this when your .cshrc, .profile
>or .zshrc did not set X11/bin in the path.

The path for /usr/X11R6/bin is properly setup in all these
files. Do I have to have something like "xinit" somewhere in my
files so it goes directly into X?  Again, what xdm is doing now
is prompt me for login name and password and after a few seconds
returning with the same thing. The only way out is to reset the
machine.

>xconsole has to be run as root.

How do you do that? I chmod 4555 to /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole as
entropy suggested. xconsole keeps coming back the the message
'couldn't open console'. I'm puzzled because 'xterm -C' doesn't
seem to have any problems in opening the console.

>> One more thing, how to I set up the system so I can highlight a
>> line in a window and copy that into another one?
>
>left button select, middle button paste?

Finally I found that the rodent had a funny behaviour. I
replaced it and it works fine now.

Thanks.

Dan