Yup, I think Laurie Harper had the right answer. Did you try it?
Alt+F9 should get you back to your X session in a standard FreeBSD
configuration. Ctl+Alt+F1 does not exit from xdm, nor even log you
out. It just switches you to another virtual console.
Whoops! Wait a moment. Did you start xdm from a shell prompt? If you
did, it's probably running on whichever virtual terminal you were on at
that time. The correct way to run xdm is to edit /etc/ttys. Look for
the line that says "ttyv8" and "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm" and change the "off"
to "on", then "kill -1 1" (SIGHUP to init). That will start xdm, and
restart it if it should ever die. Oh, you have to find and kill the one
you've already started first.
xdm will put up a graphical login prompt. You can switch to any of the
other virtual terminals with Ctl+Alt+F{1-8}, and back to your X11
session with Ctl+Alt+F9 (the Ctl isn't necessary on the text-mode
terminals, but it doesn't hurt).
Thank Laurie Harper for calling this one.
Anant wrote:
>
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
[...]
> > I'm having some problems with XDM. For some reason, I can only
> > run it once. If I exit from it through Ctrl+Alt+F1, and then type
> > xdm at the prompt, nothing happens. It is as though I had just
> > pressed enter. When I type startx, it says that the server is
> already
> > running because of the lock file. Is there supposed to be a more
> > appropriate way for exiting xdm? Thanks
>
> what distro are you using?
>
> Carl Soderstrom
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