re problems with xdm under x r solaris db sunbim be danny backx writes yes that is a bug in the x r port of xterm you sometimes get this when you start from xdm i have reported this to casper but don t know whether it made it into his set of patches yet basically in mit clients xterm main c there is a test at line which checks errno after attempting to open dev tty add the errno einval case to it and you should be fine it s actually a bug in the solaris kernel we could add a workaround to xterm open should never return einval but it does i didn t have time to update the r sunos patch lately but non of the existing problems seem to warrant a new set of patches since xsession is a bourne shell script anyway you might as well add a line etc timezone as it is done in etc profile xdm coulda also keep the xdm environment variable it should have inherited it from the environment casper
