[comp.windows.x] Session execution problem from xdm...

moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (04/15/91)

In trying to get xdm to start, I get the following error message after logging
in:
       Session execution failed /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession

where Xsession is the session startup file pointed to by xdm-config in the xdm
directory. Yet when I execute Xsession directly after using xinit to startup X,
everything works correctly.

Any ideas, anyone?

melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) (04/16/91)

>In trying to get xdm to start, I get the following error message [...]:
>
>       Session execution failed /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
>
>[...] Yet when I execute Xsession directly after using xinit [...],
>everything works correctly.

Perhaps your Xsession script is missing a token indicating which shell to
use?

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
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