Timo.Korvola@hut.fi (Timo Korvola) writes:

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>In article <gthomas.734827612@sfu.ca> gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
>writes:

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>   I initialy installed the new kernel, 99p8,
>   which caused xdm to fail.

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>   - xdm comes up and presents login prompt
>   - login takes username and passwd
>   - seems to pass control to xinit
>   - then snaps back to the login

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>I've had the same problem, had to switch back to 0.99.7 to run xdm.

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>It seems that xinit runs .xinitrc, but the user's clients aren't
>allowed to connect to the server.  Putting xhost + in your Xstartup
>disables the access control, so your clients (and anybody else's for that
>matter) can connect, but I wouldn't recommend this on a network machine.

This behaviour may be related to NFS.  I have created anon privleged
user with home directory on the local disk and was able to log in.
All the other users on the system have directories mounted via NFS.

I will apply the patch that came out for the vm86 problem to see
if it is the problem here.  

Watch this space.

Guy


P.S.  clearing /tmp/.X0-lock and /tmp/.X0-unix/X0 cleared up
the Server active error.  

Thanks to; Tor Arntsen, Jason A Kinner, James C. Tsiao, Ron Visser,
Bill Woodward and any one else that I have have missed.