Subject: Re: Problem with GDM on startup
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 18:36:53 MST
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rich Dolinsky wrote:
> I just installed Yellow Dog and upon startup everything goes fine until gdm
> tries to startup. It gives me an error that gdm was already running but it
> was mysteriously murdered. This error happens over and over again. Is
> there any way to bypass this without having to try and reinstall. If I do
> reinstall I am going to try and use a text login mode rather than a gui
> based one, so it would be greatly appreciated if someone knew the answer.
> This is because this computer is being used by my roommates as well and I do
> not want to have to have them type their names in.. They are not the most
> computer literate people and might get confused.
>
Two things
- One this error pops up from time to time. It's ok as long as everything
is working. I belive it's been fixed in newer gdm versions, so you may
want to find a more recent .src/rpm and --rebuild it. (Seems like my
mantra of late). This can also be caused by X having an issue and
crashing and then init restarting it. Can you use GNOME / KDE / X11 at
all?
- Two, you don't need to re-install just to change the text/graphical
login screen. As root you can simply edir /etc/inittab and change the
default runlevel. The runlevels should be explained int he inittab file,
but the ones you're concerned with ar 3 (multi-user / text only) and 5
(multi-user / graphical X11 login). The line you need to change should be
at the top of the file and should look like:
id:5:initdefault:
Changing the "5" in that line to a "3" will make the machine boot into
text mode login. You can then issue a "startx" command once logged in to
start GNOME or KDE.
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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