As other's have pointed out this seems to indicate that xdm is starting, then
crashing for some reason. xdm is set to just keep restarting the server. You
could have the mouse messed up. If the server can't open /dev/psaux for the
mouse
it will die (at least it does on my box!). You need to stop x
Oops! made a mistake:
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> If you don't know what lilo is, just take out the installation
> bootdiskette (also called "rescue disk" for exactly this kind of purpose)
> and at the first prompt type "linux single."
If you boot from the rescue disk, you'll want
Hi Joost,
> This is not the right way. You should edit /etc/X11/config so that it
> doesn't have a line that matches the regexp "^start-xdm". Prepending "no-"
> to that line accomplishes that, while keeping it easy to undo the change
> (just remove the "no-" part again.)
Thanks. I couldn't reme
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> then edit whatever you need to disable xdm temporarily. For example, you
> could temporarily move /etc/init.d/xdm to /etc/init.d/xdm.orig.
This is not the right way. You should edit /etc/X11/config so that it
doesn't have a line that matches the regexp
Hi,
> find out what is going on in your X configuration. What you could do stop
> the xserver from trying to load is telnet in and kill the xdm process. I
You're suggesting that he telnet in as root? Dangerous :)
Hopefully, if you've installed an encrypting telnet such as SSLtelnet on
both ma
hello there, this is a comman problem for people who are new to linux and
X. The problem is that you installed an Xserver and configured it
incorrectly. there is a file in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver: here is mine.
# $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $
#
# Xservers file, work
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Debian Users !
Hi Neil,
First: I hope you're subscribed to debian-user, because I'm not going to
edit your antispam stealth email address. I hate spam, but I don't think
that it would be a good solution to the problem if everybody uses an
obfusca
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