Re: Re: [Nolug] RH 9 problems

id:3:initdefault: made no difference. The non-root logins still produce the same message. The first time as root was slow, but when I did it again it was at normal speed.
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From: "Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>
Date: 2003/06/10 Tue PM 01:04:54 EDT
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] RH 9 problems

It would be a good idea to first copy it to something like inittab.sav
before editing. Then if it's badly messed up you could probably still
boot as "linux single" and copy the inittab.sav file back to inittab.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: -ray <ray@ops.selu.edu>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: 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?
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>> 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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