Debian sarge strange login behavior 3149

Consider not running xdm. Switch to a text console, uninstall xdm, and start X via "startx" instead. Investigate your X config file as appropriate.

Try detaching it. Try using the normal one. Try using a USB keyboard. Try configuring your X config file for a ps-2 keyboard, usb keyboard, or whatever. Try something instead of sitting with a possibly lame

That's kdm at best, but it's whatever you have configured as login manager for X.

Why not log in at the console instead?

Oh!!!! You mean that there is a race beteen loading the keyboard driver and starting xdm? Great! Then kill xdm-X with ctl-alt-bkspace once and let it restart. Then you kno who won the race. Tell the author or package maintainer of the appropriate package (xdm?).

Well, the snide answer is that you cure that by understanding them. Or disregarding them. Or loking away.

Failing that, you can read the release notes for your X server release

So why tell us about it? I'm puzzled.

Should it? Do you have links pointing to that from somewhere inetc-rc*.d? Oh - you think it gets loaded? Well, uninstall it. Read the file and disable it.

TPCTL=-usr-bin-tpctl test -x $TPCTL exit 0

But thanks! I'll install it and see what it does!

Peter