Bob Vaughan wrote:
>
> A couple days ago, I did an upgrade from a -stable build of earlier this
> month, and since then I have not been able to get xdm to work at all.
>
> When xdm is started, I get a quick flash of a background screen, and then
> it goes blank. this repeats until xdm is killed.
>
when starting, xdm chown's the console, which was breaking on one of my
machines, where the user name contains a period ('.'). chown still
thinks the dot is the separator between the user name and the group
name.
My cure was to rebuild chown from the src tree (in src/usr.sbin/chown/),
with the option CFLAGS+=-DSUPPORT_DOT commented out of the Makefile
HTH
TfH
PS : FreeBSD supports dots in user names since 3.0 - chown still does
not !!!
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