Charles, the '5' is NOT 5 minutes.
The '5' indicates the runlevel that service is for. That is, when the system is in runlevel 5, the /usr/bin/kdm service will be started. I think Bjorn is onto something here. I'll bet you still have another display manager running. What distro/version are you running on your server ? If there is another display manager running, then try commenting out the kdm line, and see how things work. Jim. Charles Marcus wrote: >Hi Bjorn, > >Ok, so... > >Here's the pertinent part of my inittab - it looks like the very last line >is what you were talking about - so I should comment this out? > ># Run xdm in runlevel 5 ># xdm is now a separate service >x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm > >I take it the 5 is 5 minutes? > >Thanks! > >Charles > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:15 PM >To: Charles Marcus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Endlessly repeating error messages > > >>Its always exactly ten messages, every five minutes (pretty much >>exactly, down to the second), of the following: >> >>Sep 30 15:52:01 sfla kdm[25846]: Can't lock pid file /var/run/xdm-pid, >>another kdm is running (pid 1493) >>Sep 30 15:52:01 sfla kdm[25848]: Can't lock pid file /var/run/xdm-pid, >>another kdm is running (pid 1493) >> > >Sounds like you're trying to run two display managers simultaneously. >Maybe one is started from /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm or similar, and the other is >started directly from an /etc/inittab entry. The ten tries every five >minutes sounds like init is trying to start something that spawns too >fast, so it disables it for a few minutes before trying again. > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
