a very persistant xdm

Stephen Bailey (bailey@physics.harvard.edu)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:26:20 -0400 (EDT)

Hi.

We had to reboot one of our machines and it came up with the
plain old xdm window, not the schnazy red-hat-with-penguin
xdm. When we log in, it isn't noticing our fvwm or whatever
configurations and is giving us a very bad default window manager
setup.

When I try to kill xdm as root, it dies and immediately restarts
itself as another process. I can't keep it dead long enough to
try to start xdm by hand and try to get my friendly login screen
back.

Any ideas what's wrong? Thanks.

Stephen