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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!syrinx!itchris From: itchris@syrinx.ucdavis.edu (Chris Lambertus) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP -- xdm won't work Date: 5 Nov 1994 23:08:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 13 Message-ID: <39h39l$6oq@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <39h2s3$ojr@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: syrinx.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark D. Spiller (mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: :+ When I log in, it gives the normal *zink* for my monitor changing :+ sync, and then it goes back to the xdm screen.... I know that :+ one potential problem would be the des vs nodes xdm, but I double :+ checked that I am using the nodes version, so I don't think that :+ that is it... Is your .xsession set up correctly? Check .xsession-errors in your home directory to see if any error messages are getting written there. .xsession must be an executable file. -Chris