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From: alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help: xdm problems
Message-ID: <1991May12.200651.5716@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX>
Date: 12 May 91 20:06:51 GMT
Sender: alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil)
Organization: University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico
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Hi Xpeople:


I just have finished to build the X11R4 on SPARCs running SunOS 4.1.1.
I have some problems with the xdm program: 

1) When I try to run xdm like a simple user I get the following message:

	Only root wants to run xdm
   
   When I type "run xdm" I only call the xdm program itself. Is this way
   of running xdm right? How can root let to the normal users run xdm?
   ( In the beginnig I did not have any .xsession file in my ~/ -I only
     put the Xsession file in /usr/lib/X11/xdm as root. Now I have the
     .xsession file that Phil Howard propose to you but the results are
     the same. )
     
2) As root I try to run xdm but I get the following errors in the 
   /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors file. This file is:
    
      Fatal server bug!
      no screens found

   This action generates another file, xdm-pid:
    2066
    2066
    ...
    2066
    
    After that, the process is done.
    
These are my mainly problems. I know that thats look poor in information. 
I really need your help, so if I have missing some relevant info, please
let me know it.

I have read the xdm man file and I follow some steps it directs. I create
for example the /usr/lib/X11/xdm directory and all the related files that
own to this path.

Which are all my BIG errors? What have I missing? (Please note that I am
not a system administrator but I can work as root anytime) 

Thanks (at least for have read this!) for you attention.

PD: Excuse my english please (my native languaje is spanish!)

-- Alfredo

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