Hey,
What do you do to fix this ? I am in the same boat. Right now it is fixed enough so that I can login text mode and then startkde3 and all is well as that user. If I try to let inittab and prefdm run I get a huge mess just like you are describing. I cannot see any culprit in the logs, very difficult to debug when you screen does nothing but flash... ? -AEF On Monday 12 August 2002 11:06 am, Pascal wrote: > Unfortunately init will not detect a loop if it does not happen fast > enough. > > In my 2 stations, I sometimes messup with X config and the x entry then > crashes repeatedly but slowly enough not to be detected by init. So my > station becomes uncontrollable. ALT-Fx or CTRL-ALT-Fx do not work since X > starts and switch console too fast to let me have a text console. > > CTRL-ALT-DEL works fine :) I wonder if it is not possible to program > another key sequence in order to set an init 3 in case of problem ?? That > would be a solution. > > Pascal > > Le Samedi 10 Ao�t 2002 22:01, Devin B. Hedge a �crit : > > This is still an interesting thread. I appreciate all the great insight. > > > > Would you characterize this as something a end user should be required to > > deal with? > > > > Catch my point? > > > > Devin. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Reser > > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:45 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Request for the X login screen > > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:32:25AM -0500, allen wrote: > > > What is the stuff that kicks off the graphical login ? How does that > > > work exactly ? I'm happy to figure it out if someone just points me > > > at the starting thing that I can trace through... source if necessary. > > > > > > Something in the initrd ? I hate that... > > > > No... it's in the /etc/inittab: > > # Run xdm in runlevel 5 > > # xdm is now a separate service > > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > > > And init will detect if it's looping and it supposed to stop trying to > > load it. > > > > If you just want to totally disable this you just need to change this > > line in your inittab: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to: > > id:3:initdefault:
