Hello there,
I have just installed FreeBSD 11 on my old Acer Extensa 5220 Notebook from DVD. After setting up Xorg, xfce and slim, the login manager shows up, asking me for user and password. Up to here, everything works as expected, but..:
No matter if I try to login as root or with my normal UID: after providing my credentials, I am asked again to enter my UID and password. There's no error message as well (like "wrong password" etc, even though if I type "nonsense").
Did I missed something while setting up the system?
The following steps have been done after basic FreeBSD installation:
Afterwards, I've added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:
The .xinitrc-File has been created with the following content.
.. and copied to /home/oinky/
In /usr/local/etc/sudoers I've added the following user privilege specification:
The command
Nevertheless*, I copied the xorg.conf.new-File to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
After rebooting the system, the login-manager appears but there's no login possible.
* I just checked a tutorial video on youtube. This guy is getting the Xorg-Error as well, however - after rebooting the system he is able to login..
Any ideas on this issue?
Thanks in advance.
I have just installed FreeBSD 11 on my old Acer Extensa 5220 Notebook from DVD. After setting up Xorg, xfce and slim, the login manager shows up, asking me for user and password. Up to here, everything works as expected, but..:
No matter if I try to login as root or with my normal UID: after providing my credentials, I am asked again to enter my UID and password. There's no error message as well (like "wrong password" etc, even though if I type "nonsense").
Did I missed something while setting up the system?
The following steps have been done after basic FreeBSD installation:
pkg install nano xorg xfce slim sudo
Afterwards, I've added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:
Code:
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
slim_enable="YES"
The .xinitrc-File has been created with the following content.
Code:
exec startxfce4
In /usr/local/etc/sudoers I've added the following user privilege specification:
Code:
oinky ALL=(ALL) ALL
The command
Xorg -configure
gave the following output:
Code:
(EE) Server terminated with error (2). closig log file.
Nevertheless*, I copied the xorg.conf.new-File to /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
After rebooting the system, the login-manager appears but there's no login possible.
* I just checked a tutorial video on youtube. This guy is getting the Xorg-Error as well, however - after rebooting the system he is able to login..
Any ideas on this issue?
Thanks in advance.