Paul Kelly hath declared on Thursday the 29 day of April 2004 :-:
> I'm just getting a grey screen with a large X cursor on my workstation.
> This indicates that the X server is running, but it has not been able to make
> contact with a display manager.
> I have checked /etc/inittab for the a line like this:
> x:5:respawn:/etc/x11/prefdm -nodaemon
> There is no line like this but I am using Mandrake 9.1 and not Red Hat
I'm not familar with Mandrake, it may start its display manager from
one of the init scripts in /etc/init.d/ check if there is anything there
and that its configured to start in your default runlevel...
On the other hand you could just add a like like the above to the inittab,
specify a specific DM if Mandrake doesn't use the prefdm thing....
x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon
Or something...
- bobb
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