Timothy Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Clay Fandre wrote: > > > > I've apt-get upgraded my workstation to XFree 4.0.1, but I'm having trouble > > > with kdm. When I put in my password I get the following error message: > > > > > > Startup program /etc/X11/kdm/Xstartup_0 exited with non-zero status. > > > Please contact your system administrator > > > Please press OK to retry. > > > > > > I've looked at Xstartup_0 and I don't see anything fishy. I suspect a > > > permissions problem. Any insights from the X gurus out there? > > > > > I had the same problem, but with gdm. IIRC there was a package missing, > > which Xstartup_0 called. Look at the script and see what is being called > > and make sure it's installed. > > Clay, > > I've looked at the scripts, but I don't see anything unusual at all. It > looks for the presence of /etc/nologin, but I don't have that file. I just > can't see why this script is running into trouble. Any other Debian users > recognize this problem? Can you paste the script? Just want to see if it's similar to the one I have.