Very Computer

Hope this hasn't been asked and answered a million times...

I upgraded from Redhat 4.x (don't remember) to RedHat 5.0. RH5.0 comes
with xdm, and it's driving me nuts. When I try to use a non-root account
to log in, it looks like it's going to log in, then returns to the login
screen again. (i.e. only logging in with root works).

When I first upgraded, I guess my old accounts weren't configured
properly for xdm, since I got a different error. It would log in, but I
wouldn't be able to bring up an xterm or anything (clicking the mouse
buttons essentially brought up no options).

When I created new accounts, logging in works. However, now it doesn't
(for non-root accounts). This started happening somewhere near the time
when I got a cable modem, so perhaps running dhcpcd has something to do
with it...?

If anyone has encountered a similar quirk? If so, what do you about it?

Oh, and one other thing... How do you quit the darn thing? I've been
using the "kill" command, since I can't figure out any other way!

Lorin Hochstein

I had this problem...  I could login when the system was set to boot
into runlevel 3, but when booting to runlevel 5, and loging in with xdm,
/usr/local/bin was missing from my path, so /usr/local/bin/afterstep was
not available, and I was presented with the login screen again. Note, I
was not getting 'incorrect login' prompt, so I know I had logged in.

Quote:> When I first upgraded, I guess my old accounts weren't configured
> properly for xdm, since I got a different error. It would log in, but I
> wouldn't be able to bring up an xterm or anything (clicking the mouse
> buttons essentially brought up no options).

> When I created new accounts, logging in works. However, now it doesn't
> (for non-root accounts). This started happening somewhere near the time
> when I got a cable modem, so perhaps running dhcpcd has something to do
> with it...?

> If anyone has encountered a similar quirk? If so, what do you about it?

> Oh, and one other thing... How do you quit the darn thing? I've been
> using the "kill" command, since I can't figure out any other way!

> Lorin Hochstein

Start xdm by changing your default run level in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5.
Then you can kill xdm with CTRL-R

--

May I suggest you're on the wrong track. Since XFree86 3.3.2 your Xserver
had to be started by Xwrapper for non-root accounts. It's done in your
.xserverrc
by changing X to Xwrapper. My non-root .xserverrc reads as follows:

exec Xwrapper :0 -bpp 16 dpms

This start my server in 16 bit per pixel with powersaving on. You have to
have a green
monitor for dpms to work and the server has to support it. I hopr this is
relevant to your
problem.