Hi gang! Can anybody help me with this conundrum? I have a hamm installation on a Toshiba 4080 XCDT, and I installed XFree86 3.3.5 to get the vid driver for it.
(BTW the last thing I was doing before I started spending all my time on this problem was trying to install Corel WP8, which was demanding certain old libs or symlinks to such. Maybe that's what cause the trouble? Anyway:) Symptom is, xdm pulls up a graphcial login prompt which works fine if I log in as root. If I log in as a normal user, I get no window manager, no xterm, no nuthin--just a mouse pointer that moves. With some help from the nice people on the debian-user-de list, I've figured out this much: xrdb is getting called by a 'for' loop in the global Xsession script, once for each file in /etc/X11/Xresources. There are three of those: xbase-clients, xfree86-common und xterm. For a normal user, xrdb hangs each time (pulls full 99% CPU use in xtop--what's it doing?). When I kill it (from a different virtual console), the Xsession script resumes control and runs xrdb again. After the third and last xrdb call is killed, an Xsession seems to start --I see xterm and xclock and a nice root background color same as root gets--but then after ~3/4 of a second the whole X server crashes. Whereupon xdm restarts it and the Login prompt is back. I read 'man xrdb', which says things about cpp, but no clues. I've checked all the permissions I can think of, and as far as I can see the users should be able to read and run anything root can in the /etc/X11 tree. Grateful for any hints, T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 "La idea de un Dios sabio, todopoderoso y que, además, nos ama, es una de las creaciones más audaces de la literatura fantástica." -- Jorge Luis Borges