Umm, so far you rc.gui is identical to my eDesktop2.4 with kde2.1.1 The only difference I see in your and mine is this (mine): DM=/opt/kde2/bin/kdm XC=/etc/XF86Config XS=/usr/X11R6/bin/X
yours: DM=/opt/kde/bin/kdm XC=/etc/X11/XF86Config XS=/usr/X11R6/bin/X HTH, On Sunday 10 February 2002 22:26, you were heard blurting out: > OK, now i think i'm a hazard to myself. A couple weeks back i somehow > managed to fubar the runlevel 5 startup on my Redhat box (after > upgrading XFree86 to 4.2.0). > > Today, i somehow managed to do the same on my Caldera box. It tries to > go to runlevel5, and bombs immediately with the error "id 'x' respawning > too quickly, disabled for 5 minutes". The thing is, i didn't touch X > at all today. I did manually upgrade alot of packages to their > COL-3.1.1 versions, but none of them were X packages. > > If I do a startx, all is peachy, but kdm refuses to run. I looked in > /var/log/XFree86.0.log and there are no errors. The only clue i've got > at the moment is in /var/log/gui where I see *only* the following: > /etc/rc.d/rc.gui: exec: -: not found > > rc.gui was last changed on 8/21/01, so i can't quite understand why its > choking now. FWIW, here's what rc.gui looks like: > #! /bin/bash > # $Id: rc.gui,v 1.3 1999/11/12 12:12:59 ray Exp $ > # > # KDM *only*! (for now ;^) > > exec - > /var/log/gui 2>&1 > C=$0; C=${C##*/} > > DM=/opt/kde/bin/kdm > XC=/etc/X11/XF86Config > XS=/usr/X11R6/bin/X > > FallBack=false > MSG="" > VC=1 > > if [ ! -x $DM ]; then > MSG="$DM: not installed!" > echo "$C: $MSG" 1>&2 > FallBack=true > elif [ ! -r $XC -o ! -x $XS ]; then > MSG="X11: configuration problems!" > echo "$C: $MSG" 1>&2 > FallBack=true > fi > > if $FallBack; then > chvt $VC > echo -e "\033c\nINIT: $MSG" > /dev/tty$VC > sleep 1 > trap "" SIGTERM > telinit 3 > sleep 1 > echo "Press <return> to contiune." > /dev/tty$VC > else > exec $DM -nodaemon > fi > > ===== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above > URL. -- Bill Day Our crystal tears now fall upon the ashes, but from the dust shall grow a spirit, to be in compassion for those who are lost, and one in determination to break those who dare test our resolve to be free... 9/11/01 http://www.daysdomain.com/tribute.html 8:30am up 193 days, 23:24, 12 users, load average: 0.18, 0.12, 0.04 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.