Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-18 Thread Erkki Ruohtula
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 21:56:39 + Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > 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 'cons

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-18 Thread Erkki Ruohtula
On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:48:16 +0100 Patrick Welche wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:43:04PM +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > > I did a fresh installation with NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso in VirtualBox > > 5.1.26, mostly using defaults. I did enable xdm in the installer. > > Everything appeared to go smoo

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:43:04PM +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > I did a fresh installation with NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso in VirtualBox > 5.1.26, mostly using defaults. I did enable xdm in the installer. > Everything appeared to go smoothly, and the system now starts nicely > X11, and shows the xdm lo

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
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

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
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 cre

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Rhialto
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

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Erkki Ruohtula
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:24:41 +0200 Rhialto wrote: > On Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 18:37:45 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > > twm > > smproxy > > xterm > > > > but apparently it fails to do so. (All these programs do exist > > in the installation). > > Maybe at the time that xsm tries to execute those p

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Rhialto
On Sun 17 Sep 2017 at 18:37:45 +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > twm > smproxy > xterm > > but apparently it fails to do so. (All these programs do exist > in the installation). Maybe at the time that xsm tries to execute those programs, they are not in $PATH? In that case, specifying full paths mig

Re: Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-17 Thread Erkki Ruohtula
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 19:43:04 +0300 Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > I did a fresh installation with NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso in VirtualBox > 5.1.26, mostly using defaults. I did enable xdm in the installer. > Everything appeared to go smoothly, and the system now starts nicely > X11, and shows the xdm login sc

Cannot login via xdm after fresh install

2017-09-10 Thread Erkki Ruohtula
Hi, I did a fresh installation with NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso in VirtualBox 5.1.26, mostly using defaults. I did enable xdm in the installer. Everything appeared to go smoothly, and the system now starts nicely X11, and shows the xdm login screen. The problem is I cannot get past that. If I enter the us