Re: Re: [Nolug] RH 9 problems

Edit your /etc/inittab file, look for the initdefault line towards the
top. Change it from 5 to 3, so it looks something like

id:3:initdefault:

Then easiest thing is to reboot to get the changes. Login at the text
console and try 'startx'. Be careful editing this file, it's pretty
critical... if you hose it up you could be in trouble. :) Has anyone
found a safer way to edit inittab? AIX has chitab which will not let you
screw up inittab.

-ray

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:

> Since I'm using KDE, I assume it's kdm I need to turn off, but HOW?
> ============================================================
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> Date: 2003/06/10 Tue AM 02:55:05 EDT
> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] RH 9 problems
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:12, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > This didn't happen at first, but now I can only log in as root.
> > This message appears when I try as non-root: "Your session only
> > lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself,
> > this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you
> > may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe
> > sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
>
> How about turning gdm (or xdm or kdm) off, and rebooting.
>
> That should bring you to a console login, so that you can see
> if the problem is with login or X or [gxk]dm or whatever.
>
>

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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