Well, there's theory, and then there's practice.
In practice, it solved his problem.
But I do see what you're saying now . . . what he's done, really,
presumably, is that he's still in runlevel 5 but now runlevel 5 doesn't
really do what it ought.
So this solves his problem but it's not the right solution.
Well, I'm a pretty emperical guy myself, so good enough for me, but
there's still a mystery to be solved.
Have at it!
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear.
|
| I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your
| system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting
| in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab.
|
| If it does, you have much bigger problems than just X starting at bootup.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T.
| Schellenberger
| Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:09 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart
|
|
|
| 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-----
| | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| | [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
| | ____
| | Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
| | Using Linux to get where I want to go...
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