Well I'm not sure which of your recommendations fixed it, but it is now working.
Here's a quick summary. I was not using .xsession, I had been using .xinitrc, and I
actually suspescted that that was causing me fits, so I commented otu all that was in
the .xinitrc to see if that would fix it. It did not, and this is where I called for
help.
After hearing from you I moved all of the .xinitrc files to .xinitrc.old, then I
started looking around for <xroot>/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession. I did not find it, but what I
did find was ..../Xsession.[rpmnew&rpmold&rpmorig]. See my problem. Well, I copied
Xsession.rpmnew to Xsession, edited initab to have a runstate 5, rebooted and bing,
bang, boom! it worked!
Thanks, I'm not sure which fixed the problem or if both was needed, but we don't mess
with things that work.
Later
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> |
> | Anyway, with the upgrade I accepted runstate 5 as my defualt so I would
> | get a gui login. We'll I login at the gui interface, the screen
> | flickers and then returns me to the login screen (still the gui one).
> | If I do a cntl-alt-F1 bing! I'm back to the console as expected and can
> | log into any of my accts.
>
> I have never mesed with gdm, but AFAIK it is an incarnation of xdm.
> xdm I can accomplish that for one user by having a file ~/.xsession that
> looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> In other words, an empty shell. when that user logs in, xdm executes
> that as the user's X session. It exits immediately, so xdm resets the
> display and accepts another login. Of course, there are other ways to
> misconfigure xdm. You could mess up the file
> <xroot>/lib/X11/[x|g]dm/Xsession, or configure gdm to use a different
> xsession file, and not have any ~/.xsession file. I am not sure if gdm
> uses xdm or gdm in its config directory and file names, but it will be
> one or the other, probably.
>
> There are probably 262143 other ways to misconfigure xdm, but lets try
> the easy ones first.
>
> Lawson
>
> All's well that ends. - Ben Franklin
> ---
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R. Haehnel
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