Dwayne Lovelady wrote:
> In a snap, I was opening xterm and netscape windows on a machine
> running exceed. Then I decided to fire up xdm and set exceed for xdmcp
> query. Login window pops up, no problem. I go to login, window
> disappears and looks like it ready to go. Then the window reappears,
> asking me to login. Password and login were correct, but it just
> doesn't want to.
>
> I looked in the xdm-error.log file in /var/log and it just says there
> is an error running the script but I am clueless.
This sounds like some form of xdm configuration error.
1. Read the xdm manpage.
2. Read the /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file. Look at the settings of
the startup and session resources; these indicate which files are
executed once you've logged in.
3. Read the specified files, particularly the Xsession file. When you
log in, this file will be executed. When the script completes, your X
session terminates, and xdm will display another login window.
The stock X11R6 Xsession script runs ~/.xsession (although
distribution vendors often tweak the xdm setup). If this script
terminates prematurely, so will your X session.
A typical ~/.xsession file will run your WM as the last command in the
file, so when you exit the WM, your session terminates. If there is a
problem with your WM configuration, this could cause the problem which
you describe.
Also check ~/.xsession-errors. xdm normally redirects all errors to
this file once you've logged in. /var/log/xdm-errors is only used when
there is no specific user.
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