xdm -debug 1 => Nothing left to do, exiting

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:13:08AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On 6.4-stable alpha I cannot get xdm to become a daemon, it exits
> immediately with empty /var/log/xdm.log.
> 
> I tried to use -debug option, and this is the output:
> 
> # xdm -debug 1
> DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value  /var/log/xdm.log
> DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true
> DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value  /var/run/xdm.pid
> DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true
> DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm
> DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true
> DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true
> DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value  /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-
> keys
> DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value  /usr/local/lib/X11/xd
> m/Xaccess
> DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value
> DisplayManager.randomDevice/DisplayManager.RandomDevice value /dev/urandom
> DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm
> /libXdmGreet.so
> DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15
> DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false
> DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value  su -m nobody -c /usr/local/
> lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
> Nothing left to do, exiting
> #

Looking at "xdm -debug .." logs on the net it seems the next line after the
Willing should be 

	creating socket 177

Perhaps xdm exits because it cannot create socket 177?
Is that plausible? How can I test this?

many thanks
anton

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