On 8/10/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400 > > William Manley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. > > > My problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into > > > Gnome. When I logged in as root the system just looped back to the > > > logon screen. I then assumed I had configured my .xinitrc file wrong > > > > xdm,gdm,kdm,wdm do not use your .xinitrc (but they can use your > > .Xsession or .xsession file), .xinitrc is only used with the command > > startx > > > > > so I booted the install cdrom into Fixit mode and tried to mount the > > > root filesystem on the hardisk which the operating system would not > > > let me do. The following are the commands I typed with the output. > > > > > > mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt > > > operation not permitted > > > > you could instead boot from harddisc in "single mode" (sp?), then remove > > xdm or configure xdm properly or use gdm or use gnome-session in your > > .xinitrc > > Single user mode. You can get to it at the boot menu, think it's > option 6, or you can exsacpe to the boot loader and type in "boot -s" > and hit enter. Once your in single user mode you will need to mount > your partitions, "mount /dev/ad0s1f /usr", if your disk is dirty you > will need to run fsck and then remount the root partition in > read/write mode before you can edit your config files. I'm not sure > how XDM etc. is started but I would try in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ first. > if a xdm startup script is in there rename to something like > xdm.sh-disabled. then type exit to boot into multi user mode and login > as root. >
It's in the handbook, XDM, here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"