On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Richard Barrass [RISCBSD] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> After a few initial problems getting X working again after upgrading to
> 1.3 (and .1 now) I have struck another few problems...
> 
> The main reason I've upgraded was to be able to try the kde out.
> 
> I've a couple of problem depending on the route I try to get it to run !
> 
> 1) using kdm, I can login okay, but run into problem straight away with
>    an error dialog detailing:
>    
>    	/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole exited with non-zero status.
>    	Please contact your system administrator.

The only thing thats in this file by default (afaicr) is:

chown $USER /dev/console

so the only thing i can think of is that [x|k]dm isn't running as root...

>    This then about 50/50 drops back to the kdm login screen or exits X
>    
> 2) if I try to use xdm to login, I login okay, but then almost immediately
>    get dropped back to the login prompt.
>    
>    
> Note: I have updated my users ~/.xsession to have:
> 
> 	startkde
> 	
> as the last line.
> 
> I'm running xdm or kdm as root.

.xsession is ment to be a shell script - check to see if it's got user
execute permissions:

jasper@box:~/[0]> ls -l .xsession
-rwxr--r--    1 jasper   user         754 Mar 31 14:01 .xsession
jasper@box:~/[0]>

if not:

chmod u+x .xsession

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Jasper Wallace                  Argo Interactive Unix Systems support