I've recently installed X and SLiM but when I wanted to login it wouldn't let me. It keeps asking for username. (virtualbox)

My /.xinitrc:

DEFAULT_SESSION=ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

case $1 in

openbox)

   exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

xfce4)

   exec startxfce4

*)

   exec $DEFAULT_SESSION

esac

Log: (1st is username attempt, 2nd is root attempt)

slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections



slim: waiting for X server to shut down





slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections

slim: pam_authentication(): Authentication failure

For reference, the archlinux wiki is a treasure trove :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

There is a typo in your script. All clk-launch-session should read ck-launch-session

Also, did you make .xinitrc executable ?

chmod +x ~/.xinitrc

You have to do a bit of extra work to start X in virtualbox with archlinux. You can find it on the wiki here, copied and pasted below.

Installing Arch under VirtualBox is straightforward, and additions should be installed through pacman (not through "Install Guest Additions" in VirtualBox, or a mounted ISO.) Follow these instructions after doing a basic install of the X-window system found on the Beginners' Guide.

Guest additions package

Install virtualbox-archlinux-additions.

Kernel modules

Manually load the VirtualBox modules with

# modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

Auto-start modules

To autostart these modules each time you boot, you can add the three modules above to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf.

MODULES=(... vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo)

Enable VboxClient-all

The VBoxClient contain these services(/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all) (copy/paste...) :

 --clipboard        start the shared clipboard service

 --display          start the display management service

 --checkhostversion start the host version notifier service

 --seamless         start the seamless windows service

So you can Enable VBoxClient-all to start all these services.

If you are running something that launches /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop, such as GNOME, then you should be ready to go. If you use .xinitrc to launch things instead, you must add

VBoxClient-all &

to your .xinitrc before launching your WM. You should now be all set, and all guest additions should work properly.

I am using OpenBSD 6.0 and I installed SLIM. I could login with root or my username. I made a huge mistake. I checked the box during logout labeled: "Save session for future logins". I could get in from then only as root but not my regular username. So through much looking around I found that I had a .cache/ folder. so I deleted all the saved sessions in ~/.cache/sessions/ and then I was able to login as my regular user again.
Of course make sure you try a logout and ensure to uncheck that box before going through with the logout. I tried it and got back in no problem and no more sessions were saved in ~/.cache/sessions/ .

I hope this helps you all.

Kevin T