One small addition to the previous - after taking a checkpoint and shutting the session manager out - which is just a logout - on the next login I got xconsole running, but with a login prompt. Had to set 'console' to 'off' and 'constty' to 'on' in /etc/ttys.
Chavdar On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 at 22:48 Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been bitten by this quite a few times before, so I started > preparing in advance a .xsession file. Looking at this thread, I decided to > check how things are now with -current and installed a fresh overnight > build under VirtualBox with full configuration during sysinstall, enabling > xdm and creating a new user. Everything worked as expected, the three > default processes were started properly, I could checkpoint a session etc. > So whatever the reason was with the earlier versions, with 8.99.2 it seems > just fine. > > The only thing which didn't work was first login with the created user - > it didn't get the password - but I was able to login as root - again with > xdm - and reset that password, after which the user login also worked as > expected. That could have been a pebcak, though. > > Chavdar > > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 at 20:57 Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: > >> On Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 22:43:38 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: >> > Tried it. It does not help. In any case xsm gets run in >> > the same enviroment as .xsession would be run, and the latter >> > has no trouble starting twm and xterm. >> >> A pity. >> >> > I wonder if everyone using X11 on NetBSD does it by setting >> > up .xsession before enabling xdm, so the default session >> > never got tested... >> >> That was indeed what I effectively did on my most recent install... just >> copied over my home directory. I think I did notice the same thing as >> you did, but I didn't spend any time investigating it. >> >> > Erkki >> -Olaf. >> -- >> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X >> \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. >> >
