I can see now that in my DebianLive/chroot directory, the etc/inittab file contains
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6, but when looking on my running live system, built from this, I can see that inittab reads 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 1:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty2 >/dev/tty2 2>&1 1:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>&1 1:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty4 >/dev/tty4 2>&1 1:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty5 >/dev/tty5 2>&1 1:23:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty6 >/dev/tty6 2>&1 Who is changing my inittab file, and when? Why does the command startx in .bash_profile result in the X server complaining about a server already running, when omitting the startx command in .bash_profile results in X not starting at all? Regards, Fredrik From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: How do I enable X autologin without using a display manager? Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:47:12 +0000 Hi! Thank You for helping me! I have tried to edit the files you wrote about, but I still don't get it to work properly. In my Debian Live build, I have aldready got the line 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f user </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2&>1, and no line containing getty. Is this because if have configured the live-helper to enable autologin? Still, when I am adding startx to my .bash_profile, the X server complains about "server already running on display 0. Remove the X lock file in /tmp". So, I suspect that I somehow already have got a live build that enables X autologin, so I try once again to build without a .bash_profile and without editing /etc/inittab, but still with a .xinitrc that starts my application. The result then is the same as usual. I get to a console, automatically logged in as user "user", but no X. In your post about the inittab and the .bash_profile, I notice that the line in .bash_profile says 'startx "'. Is the quotation mark (") accidentaly put there, or should it be included (and why in that case)? Regards, Fredrik > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How do I enable X autologin without using a display manager? > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:39:29 +0700 > > On Friday 27 March 2009 09:34:44 Iwan Setiawan wrote: > > > Put startx in .xinitrc, and include it in chroot_local-includes/~? > > Thanks to varadarajan narayanan for making me notice that my first reply has > gone nowhere & not complete :D > > Actually I have used 3 files to do the autologin without display manager, but > I still use desktop environment: > > - /etc/inittab and .bash_profile like varadarajan stated > > - also .xinitrc which I said earlier. It contains: > > /usr/bin/qiv -zr /usr/share/dir/images/ > sudo /usr/bin/app & > wait > startlxde > > This script, as you all know, run qiv to display wallpaper randomly, app to > generate something, and start the LXDE. > > Ok. In case anybody was wondering why i replied with .xinitrc right away :) > > -- > There is a word for that and that word is "crap". > > - Alexander Viro on linux-kernel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Dela foton på ett smidigt sätt med Windows Live™ Photos. Dra och släpp _________________________________________________________________ Dela foton på ett smidigt sätt med Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
