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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: RE: xdmstarting loops Message-ID: <27JAN94.15540104@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research References: <2i1598$8q8@crl2.crl.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:54:01 GMT Lines: 17 In a previous article, rmc@crl.com (Jeff Phillips) wrote: >After installing XFree86-2.0, with the xdm-des option, the machine seemed >to continue functioning o.k. I made the suggested changes to the rc.local >to start the xdm on bootup. While working on the Xconfig file, the >machine rebooted (unplanned) and came back up went through all of the >startup untill it hit xdmstarting local daemons followed by the date and >then the screen flashes every few seconds like it is stuck in a cycle. If >I boot to floppy and mount the hard drive, i can comment out the lines in >the rc.local dealing with xdm and everything works fine. I have also >tried reinstalling the xdm archive with no luck. Can someone please >explain what xdm is and what i need to do to correct this problem. >tnx > The problem is probably with your xdm setup. Check the filenames (with path) for all the files referred to in you xdm set up and try calling it from the command line first, to see if it works, before you put it in the rc.