xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits
immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log.

I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output:

# xdm -debug 1
DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value  /var/log/xdm.log
DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true
DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value  /var/run/xdm.pid
DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true
DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm
DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true
DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true
DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value  /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-
keys
DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value  /usr/local/lib/X11/xd
m/Xaccess
DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value
DisplayManager.randomDevice/DisplayManager.RandomDevice value /dev/urandom
DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm
/libXdmGreet.so
DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15
DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false
DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value  su -m nobody -c /usr/local/
lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
Nothing left to do, exiting
#

What does this mean? Some misconfiguration?
I haven't touched any config
files from x 7.3 to 7.4, and I followed the UPDATING.

Does ldd shed any light on this problem?:

#ldd -av /usr/local/bin/xdm
/usr/local/bin/xdm:
	libXmu.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x160072000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x1600a4000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x16012e000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x160148000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x16016a000)
	libutil.so.5 => /lib/libutil.so.5 (0x16019e000)
	libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x1601c0000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x1601d4000)
	libXpm.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x1601fa000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
	libxcb.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 (0x16036a000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x16039c000)
	libpthread-stubs.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x1603b0000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x1603c2000)
	libcrypt.so.3 => /lib/libcrypt.so.3 (0x1603d8000)
	libpam.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.3 (0x1603ee000)
	librpcsvc.so.3 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.3 (0x160408000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x160424000)
/usr/local/lib/libXmu.so.6:
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x1600a4000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x16012e000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x16016a000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x1601d4000)
/usr/local/lib/libXt.so.6:
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x16012e000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x16016a000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
/usr/local/lib/libSM.so.6:
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x16016a000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x160148000)
/usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1:
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x1601d4000)
/usr/local/lib/libXext.so.6:
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
	libxcb.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 (0x16036a000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x1603c2000)
	libpthread-stubs.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x1603b0000)
	librpcsvc.so.3 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.3 (0x160408000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x16039c000)
/usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4:
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x160220000)
/usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6:
	libxcb.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 (0x16036a000)
	librpcsvc.so.3 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.3 (0x160408000)
/usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2:
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x16039c000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x1603c2000)
	libpthread-stubs.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpthread-stubs.so.0 (0x1603b0000)


many thanks
anton

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Anton Shterenlikht
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