On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:48:16 +0100 Patrick Welche <pr...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:43:04PM +0300, Erkki Ruohtula wrote: > > I did a fresh installation with NetBSD-7.1-amd64.iso in VirtualBox > > 5.1.26, mostly using defaults. I did enable xdm in the installer. > > Everything appeared to go smoothly, and the system now starts nicely > > X11, and shows the xdm login screen. The problem is I cannot get > > past that. If I enter the username root and its correct > > password, I get a dialog box labeled "Session Menu", > > with text "chooseSessionListWidget" and buttons under it, > > of which most are grayed except "Default/Fail Safe" and "Cancel". > > Does adding your hostname to /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1, ::1 help?
No, it makes no difference. Erkki