"Ian P. Thomas" wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:15:12PM -0500, Craig Taylor wrote:
> > you're right, I just meant that I only have problems with the xdm and
> > not using startx. I set xdm to start when I bootup, and it doesn't work
> > for me, if I kill those processes and login through the terminal as root
> > and run startx, then x will start up fine for me. I'm just stuck as to
> > why the xdm, after approving my login (no error) can't start my
> > enlightenment, or gnome, and keeps restarting x (repeating the login
> > session over and over, with the error messages in my .xsession-errors).
> >
>         What is listed in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver?  It should end with a line stating
> which vt X is going to use.  This vt should correspond to the tty you have set
> up in /etc/ttys to run xdm.
>
> ttyE7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure
>
>         Here is the corresponding portion of /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver
>
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt08
>
>         Notice that the numbers are off-by-one.  I'm thinking that getty is logging
> you in on the same tty xdm is trying to log you in on.
>
> Ian
>
> p.s. You may have something other than ttyE[1-9], I'm using NetBSD 1.5.2.
>

Maybe tty is counting from 0 (zero) and vt is counting from 1??

pn

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