Through a telnet session, I followed Brian's suggestions. Basically, I have an xdm.log but no kdm.log. But kdm is what is runnning. Below is what I found. I'll try to get more tonight when I am at console.
- Brian mass % psgrep kdm root 269 0.0 0.8 5552 2244 ? S 17:13 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm root 277 0.1 1.5 13960 3868 ? S 17:13 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -auth /var/state/kdm/A:0-Z265qE mass % cat xdm.log xdm error (pid 281): error 98 binding socket address 177 Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages xdm error (pid 281): server unexpectedly died xdm error (pid 281): Server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled mass % ls /var/log/kd* zsh: no matches found: /var/log/kd*