On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:05:01PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Last night I upgraded all X packages to XFree4.0.1, and now I can't > login to X using WDM. Every time I enter my userid and password in the > WDM login panel, the login panel disappears, I see a plain grey > background, and then the login panel reappears. > > Is there anyway to debug this problem to find out why this is happening > ? And also, is there a quick fix for this ? > > I am using Wdm-1.19-4.2, and I noticed the problem right after I > installed xbase-clients-4.0.1 (and xcontrib-3.3.6 was removed).
I've had this problem a couple times after upgrading core WindowMaker or X packages. I would guess it's a conflict between some of the old libraries (still in use by wdm/the running X server) and the new ones (which newly- started processes will access during the login/session startup sequence). To get everyone using the same libraries again, restart wdm. (/etc/init.d/wdm restart) -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+