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That was not really wrongly installed.
You have the menu pkg installed. When you install pkgs it updates all of your m
enus to show the new pkg. It builds a new syste.*rc file REPLACING the one alre
ady there. Backup that file before it gets lost and read the
Thanks to everyone who responded. The key bit of info was discovering
about the ~/.xsession-errors file. Once I had that it was really easy.
The problem was that the /etc/X11/afterstep/system.steprc was wrongly
installed as /etc/X11/afterstep/system.steprc-menu. Since I didn't have a
~/.steprc
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On 02-Apr-97 Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal
>>> login is about to occur, the server flashes, and then the
>>> console login reloads?
>
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal
>> login is about to occur, the server flashes, and then the
>> console login reloads?
>>
>> i've seen that and yes its a permission issue.
Adam> Yep that'
It sounds like there is a problem with your .xsession script (if you
have one), or the file /etc/X11/window-managers. If you have a
.xsession script, everything should be started in the background,
except for the last thing (usually the window manager, could be an
xterm, though). If not, make sur
> Pardon me for asking such a simple question, but did you
> remember to switch to xdm-shadow?
Yep... until I did that I couldn't even log in!
> 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm-shadow
>
Hi,
>>"Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it
Adam> comes up with "Login incorrect" as it should but if I put in the
Adam> right passwd it all but logs in and then goes back to the xdm
Adam> login window... I can login vi
>when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal login is
>about to occur, the server flashes, and then the console login reloads?
>
>i've seen that and yes its a permission issue.
Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it comes up with
"Login incorrect" as it should
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