In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, W Paul Mills writes: >On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > >> > >> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >> > ... >> > >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start >> > >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is >> > >starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. >> > >What else do I need to configure? >> > >> > This is my /etc/X11/config: >> > >> > # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. >> > # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see >> > # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README >> > >> > run-xconsole >> > obey-nologin >> > allow-user-resources >> > allow-user-modmap >> > allow-user-xsession >> > allow-failsafe >> > start-xdm >> > start-fs >> > no-xdm-start-server > ^^^ > I don't really know, but should this be > xdm-start-server??
xdm-start-server allows your machine to manage X displays on other machines, which is not what is wanted in this particular case. >> > >> > run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? >> >> I don't think so, I have xdm running with run-xconsole commented out. >> That is no problem. If you comment it out you just don't see all those >> error messages in the console window passing by :) Sorry about that, Eric is right of course. and in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wesley Hart writes: > >I had an identical experience setting up my 1.3 system: I chose not to >enable xdm until after I had hand-tested my X config. Then when I tried >to start it manually, it failed in the manner that you describe. > >After fruitlessly looking at all of the xdm config files I could find, I >ended removing and reinstalling the xbase and xserver-svga packages. A >bit heavy-handed, but it got the job done. > >In retrospect, I _think_ the problem was that the /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver >wasn't configured correctly. I seem to recall seeing a >'debian-not-configured' comment in there before I did the reinstall. >I'm not at my debian system right now, but I'll take a look at this >tonight and see if I can reproduce the problem by tweaking this file. > Yes. When first installed, /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers contains nothing but comments. You need a line like this linda:0.0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 to enable xdm to manage your local display. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
