Can't login with normal user via XDM

kukmedis · 2011-06-02 13:58:08

Hi everyone,
I have installed XFCE with XDM. The problem is, that when xdm loads, when I enter my normal user name and password the screen blinks and drops me back to xdm. When I enter root with password everything is fine (but I don't want to use root obviously).
I have copypasted .xinitrc and .xsession from root to home/jonas/. Here are the contents of
.xinitrc: http://pastebin.com/n2u4qfLD
rc.conf: http://pastebin.com/2NLKEXyw
inittab: http://pastebin.com/6Sbf76ff

What am I missing? Thank you in advance

weltio · 2011-06-02 20:16:25

uhm - https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=19218 here the same with gdm (in german) - there havent been a solution until now
last advice was to downgrade gdm but it sounds very unlikely due to the fact that xdm makes similar problems

roygbiv · 2011-06-02 22:01:26

i don't know the solution but, have you tried starting xfce in .xinitrc like this ?

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

Last edited by roygbiv (2011-06-02 22:02:37)

kukmedis · 2011-06-02 22:26:50

@roygbiv. Yes it is commented out in .xinitrc. Anyway just installed slim, pointed inittab to it and all the problems gone. This made me feel that it was not my fault xdm didn't work

cybertorture · 2011-06-02 22:36:17

Chech if there is "startxfce4.desktop" in /usr/share/applications/

RufusD · 2011-06-06 07:47:32

weltio wrote:

last advice was to downgrade gdm but it sounds very unlikely due to the fact that xdm makes similar problems

I got the same problem with xdm, while gdm works fine. I'm still interested in seeing what's the xdm issue, though.

weltio · 2011-06-06 17:05:44

in the german threat, the ~/.profile made gdm to crash because of an app which wasnt there anymore.
Did you change /etc/profile or ~/.profile?

RufusD · 2011-06-06 17:52:13

thanks for trying to help, but gdm is working fine for me. It's xdm that is crashing.

(for the record: I got no .profile, and /etc/profile looks fine [and executes flawlessly when called from a terminal])

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#1 2011-06-02 13:58:08

Can't login with normal user via XDM

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