Re: Re: [Nolug] RH 9 problems

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:11, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> 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.

Is kdm still coming up?

> ============================================================
> 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?
> >> ============================================================
> >> 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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