From: Jason Corcoran (jason at domain corcoran.tc)
Date: Thu 31 May 2001 - 12:37:51 IST
Symlink was pointing to kdm for kde 1.x, I had upgraded to kde 2.1.1, but it
was woring before, anyway I modifed the link.
Thanks,
It s working fine now.
Jason.
On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:23, Dave Neary wrote:
> Jason Corcoran wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 May 2001 10:46, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:05:17AM +0100, Jason Corcoran wrote:
> > > > For some reason my SuSE machine is starting up at runlevel 2 and kdm
> > > > is not starting. Can I force it to go to run level 3 or is it
> > > > stopping at runlevel 2 for a reason.
> > >
> > > As the risk of being "Don't ask stupid questions - of course I'm doing
> > > that" do you have 3 as your default run level ? Does grep initdefault
> > > /etc/inittab return
> > >
> > > id:3:initdefault:
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > id:2:initdefault:
> > >
> > >
> > > If the latter, there's your problem. If the former, then something's
> > > sadly broken. When you start at run level 2, can you login as root and
> > > do init 3 and get kdm up ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Niall
> >
> > I have checked and it is set to run level 3,
> >
> > Hummm
>
> In that case have a look in the dir /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (or possibly
> /etc/rc3.d - you get the idea) - there should be a number of sym links
> to other files. You'll need to get one of these to start kdm (it's just
> a shell script) and put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d (or whatever) and create
> a symlink in rc3.d called S99kdm - it should start then. If the kdm
> shell script is already there you just need to make the link.
>
> RedHat choose to start prefdm (a link to your preferred display manager)
> in the inittab itself by adding the line below to inittab - I believe
> most of the other distros use the rc.d mechanism.
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
> The kdm script could be as simple as:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> start(){
> echo "Starting kdm..."
> /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
> }
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> start
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: kdm start"
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
-- _____________________ Thanks. Jason Corcoran. email : jason at domain corcoran.tc sms : jay at domain corcoran.tc
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