Don,
Thanks for the reply.
I did not disable xdm, at least intentionally. If I get a bash prompt and
then manually issue the "start_ws", I still get the same results.
There is only a gray screen with a large X cursor (that can be moved), but
no login prompt. It looks like some sort of xdm problem. Everything was
working fine until I did a "make modules_install" and "buildk".
I will probably try rebuilding the kernel plus modules and running the
initrd "buildk" script. I don't intend to run the kernel since I can't find
the "nfs swap" patch. I only have the "official" 2.4.9 kernel source from
kernel.org. I don't know where to get the sources and patches that ltsp
uses.
I think that merely building the kernel plus modules somehow may have broken
the system. I did not set the "EXTRAVERSION" #define in the Makefile when
building the kernel. I think that this needs to be set to "-ltsp-5" in order
to get the paths correct. I am not sure of this since I have never been able
to successfully build a kernel. I any case, I can run the original kernel at
runlevels 3 and 4, I just can't get X windows login to work.
Thanks,
Rob
>From: Don Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "G. Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] AGP support but now X login prompt won't start
>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:04:48 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, G. Major wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, something seems to have gotten broken. When I boot, I do
>not
> > get a login prompt. The screen is all gray and the cursor works but no
>login
> > prompt. I have been attempting to debug it with no success. It seems to
>be a
> > "kdm" problem of some sort but I have no idea what the problem is or how
>to
> > fix it.
> >
>
>
>Curiously, this is the behaviour that I was after for my particular
>application. However, I looked through the notes I sent you and I didn't
>send you the specifics for shutting off the xdm query, so I don't think
>the error is there.
>
>What I would do is restart xdm on the server machine, reboot your client,
>then check the X11 logs on the server. Be sure the line to start the
>xserver has -query <xdmserver> as an argument. In rc.local there should
>be a line that looks like:
>
> echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/${XBINARY} ${ACC_CTRL} -query ${XDM_SERVER}"
> >/tmp/start_ws
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-don
>
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