Bug 216486

Summary: x11/xdm: xdm fails to start xfce4
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: John Smith <godevilove>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11>
Status: Closed Feedback Timeout    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: madpilot
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (x11)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   

Description John Smith 2017-01-26 10:19:49 UTC
My xdm doesn't let me log in: 
As soon as I enter the password, xdm reboots and presents me with the login prompt again.

cat /var/log/xdm.log
xdm info (pid 866): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
xdm info (pid 866): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
xdm info (pid 905): executing session /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
xdm info (pid 866): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
XIO:  fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
      after 162 requests (131 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
xdm info (pid 833): Starting X server on :0
xdm info (pid 910): sourcing /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0


FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1
xdm 1.1.11_7
xfce 4.12_1
Comment 1 Guido Falsi freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-10-03 14:54:11 UTC
How did you configure xdm to start xfce4 desktop? Via ~/.xsession script? Or another way?