XDM login freezes on boot

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Wed Feb 11 02:46:47 PST 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:20PM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote:
> AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2
> 
> I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this 
> machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything 
> loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon screen, however, 
> you cant do anything an the mouse dosent work.  To solve this issue i go 
> to console via CTRL + ALT + F1 kill tthe XDM pid an once it comes back 
> up, everything is perfectly fine.
> 
> Anyone else had this odd occurance ?

no, but what I see is that xdm exits immediately. I just cannot get the
daemon to run. This is on 6.4-stable alpha with xdm-1.1.8_1

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