UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ok i just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a computer i had lying around and it was working ok but then when i tried to set up KDE's xdm (kdm) i think i must have configured the login manager wrong because i cant login through the kdm and therefore i can log in to BSD at all?!

please can someone help me out cos i really dont want to have to install the whol OS again...

cheers

what did you configure? what happens? when you say you cant login, you are prompted for a user name and password? have you tried text only (no x session) login?
please provide more information.

thanks very much for the reply but it has been solved now

cheers

what turned out to be the problem? what was your solution? it would be great if you could provide all that info.. that way in the future if someone encounters the same, or similar problem that you did, they could find this thread and use your solution.

Problem:
ok i was trying to setup the kdm gui login on FreeBSD 4.8.
I modified the etc/ttys file so that the kdm gui loaded when bsd was booted, it boots before the normal login so you have to login through the gui, you cant login normally. However i (think i) misconfigured kde's login manager wrong and so when i tried to log in through the kdm gui login it would not start kde.

Solution:
I had to press a key other than enter before the kernel booted to get the command prompt. Then i had to type boot -s to boot the sytem in single-user mode, then login as root.
Then i had to mount the filesystems using mount -a.
Then i had to modify the etc/ttys file so that the kdm gui login didnt load after booting.

hope this might possibly help someone in the future

thanks again norsk hedensk

no prob. you did all the work