If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem?
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in
| runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not
| part of the problem.
|
| Russ
|
| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester
| Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:03 AM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
|
|
| Brian T. Schellenberger said:
| > I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just
| > do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc.
| >
| > Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks
| > you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do anything.
| >
| > Thus a plain gray screen.
| >
| > Try deleting it and then do a startx.
|
| Many, many thanks to you and Civileme and others for sticking with this
| investigation. It looks like the above finally did the trick. Deleting
| (well, actually renaming) the .xinitrc and taking out
| "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the bottom of inittab
| allowed the boot to stop at the console screen and for "startx" to
| operate without crashing back to the console.
|
| Interestingly, now that I've done a startx, the window manager that is
| running is KDE, not my preferred and previous IceWM. I think I can find
| where that is going on and make the change.
| --
| Lane
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