xdm doesn't run as daemon

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:39:23PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote:
> 
> 
> Anton Shterenlikht skrev:
> > After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working:
> > 
> > # xdm
> > # ps ax|grep xdm
> > 75632  p1  S+     0:00.01 grep xdm
> > # cat /var/log/xdm.log
> > #
> > 
> > So no xdm daemon.
> > 
> > My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Hi Anton,
> 
> Tried detaching it?
> 
> xdm &

It terminates straight away

# xdm &
[1] 82938
#
[1]    Done                          xdm
#

with empty /var/log/xdm.log

Perhaps I should check which libraries xdm is built with and
try to rebuild those? But I think I've done this already.

thanks anyway
anton

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