XDM Login Broken

Bill Campbell bill
Mon May 17 11:29:35 PDT 2004


On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:26:05PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
...
>I saw your Step on this. I don't want to seem stubborn or
>unappreciative for your help, but:
>1) I don't have an xserverrc. Admittedly, this *may* be part of the
>   problem, and I foolishly didn't save the working configuration
>   before installing 4.1.0 and, now, 4.2.0.

I've had to add the call to xserverrc on Caldera 3.1* since it
disappeared with the new X updates.

>2) Your Step mentions this in connection with fixing startx from the 
>   console so that it works. My problem is that startx from the
>   console works fine, but XDM doesn't -- the reverse of the problem
>   described in your Step
>3) I don't have Xwrapper, so your xserverrc won't work

Newer Caldera doesn't have Xwrapper any more.  Replace this with ``X''
or XFree86.

Bill
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