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Old 08-01-2003, 03:06 PM   #1
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Arrow kdm problems


Kdm works pretty well for me, except for a few things:

1.When I click on the Menu>Console Login button, kdm just turns itself off, leaving me with nothing but the "Starting up X11 login manager" line and the stuff before it. I have to switch to tty6 to restart it or switch to a different runlevel. How can I get the button working.

2. When I switch consoles and switch back, it does the same the same thing.

BTW, why are there only tty1 and tty6 in runlevel 4?
 
Old 08-01-2003, 04:33 PM   #2
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Is run level 4 the normal run level for X11 in slackware?

Neither in RedHat, SuSE, or Debian, is run level 4 used.
RedHat and Suse run X11 in run level 5 and for Debian it is run level 3.

As to what is happening with your virtual terminals, have a look at your /etc/inittab file.

For RedHat I have

1:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --long-hostname tty6

The first digit 1 - 6 refers to the virtual terminal
the following numbers refer to the run level

So if you want a login to appear on every virtual terminal in run level
make sure you specify 4 in the second field as show above.

Your getty specification will no doubt be different from above,
do not change it!

And keep a copy of this file before you edit it.

cp -p /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.SAV

If you mess up this file, you will not be able to login at all to your system.

As for your KDE menu problem, I cannot really help except to say that I think what you are doing is clicking on a button to go to the first available virtual console on which to to a login.

After clicking on that button, can you do an

CTRL-ALT-F7 to get to your X session, or has that terminated?
 
Old 08-03-2003, 09:50 PM   #3
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The runlevel for X in Slackware is 4.
When I click the button in kdm for console login, in doesn't try to switch to a different virtual console. It just disappears.
When I switch from, for example, tty1 to tty6 then back to tty1, I find that kdm has disappeared. It's still running, but I can't get to it.
 
Old 08-04-2003, 07:46 PM   #4
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If you look at your /etc/inittab you should have an entry something like this

x:4:respawn:/bin/nice -10 /etc/X11/X vt07 -dpi 100

Note the vt07?

If the vt07 is not there, do not worry, since that is the default.

That means that X is run on Virtual Console Terminal 7.

1) So when you click on console login on kdm, that takes you to a virtual console on vt01 presumably? When you login there and do

ps -adef | egrep kdm

do you still see kdm running

and if you do

ps -adef | egrep X

do you still see X running?

2) If you type <ALT><CTL><F7> do you then get returned to the kdm graphical login screen?

3) If there is nothing there, and you go

<ALT><CTL><F1>

back to vt01 and then type init 4, does anything happen?

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.
 
Old 08-05-2003, 11:08 AM   #5
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There is no "x:4:respawn:/bin/nice -10 /etc/X11/X vt07 -dpi 100
" line in my inittab.
 
Old 08-05-2003, 02:43 PM   #6
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I edited my inittab to add tty5 in runlevel 4, and suddenly things started to work properly (almost). When I click the Console Login button, I'm switched over to runlevel 3. However, in a few seconds kdm starts again.
 
Old 08-05-2003, 06:30 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally posted by aaa
I edited my inittab to add tty5 in runlevel 4, and suddenly things started to work properly (almost). When I click the Console Login button, I'm switched over to runlevel 3.
Although you are at the command line prompt on a virtual console,
I do not think you are in runlevel 3, but still in runlevel 4.

Quote:
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However, in a few seconds kdm starts again.
This is what you want, is it not?

So is everything working now as you want it to work?
 
Old 08-06-2003, 11:55 AM   #8
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My inittab says that I only have tty5 and tty6 in runlevel four. When I click on Console Login, other consoles like tty4 and tty2 also become available, so I was probably switched to runlevel 3. Is kdm supposed to come again in a few seconds?
 
Old 08-06-2003, 04:57 PM   #9
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If kdm is started as a daemon, then yes it will keep returning.

If it did not, then every time you ended your X session, somebody would have to login as root and start kdm again.
 
  


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