On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 02:33:48PM -0500, Vincent Colombo wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> My girlfriend's doing an internship at UW-Madison this summer and, as she's
> staying in the dorms, I figured I'd give her my computer so she could access
> email and everything while she's not at work (ok, so I just wanted to go
> visit and download things at extremely fast speeds ;) ). Anyway, I went and
> set up the machine, everything was working fine.
>
> Now, however, when she attempts to log in she receives the following
> message:
>
> startup program /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole exited with non-zero status
>
> Anyone able to tell me why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?
Well, from what I see in the /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole File:
chown $USER /dev/console
/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w "/var/log/wtmp" -u "/var/run/utmp" \
-x "/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" -l $DISPLAY -h "" $USER
One of these commands is not working. The GiveConsole is run as root, so
there is definitly something not correct. Let her start the script (as
root) with:
/bin/sh -x /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
and look at what went wrong. You might send this to the list and we can
then help you.
Regards
Smurphy
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