help: Mandrake login menu doesn't appear

xiongnu · 10-05-2004, 11:15 PM

hi,

my mandrake 10.0 suddenly lost its graphical login screen. after the lilo boot loader started, system falls back to shell login, then i typed in user/password, and i also have to type 'startx' to get into x windows. previously, i login from graphical login screen, and afterwards x windows starts automatically.

what's wrong?

yraen69 · 10-05-2004, 11:27 PM

what did you change / fiddle with / install?

xiongnu · 10-05-2004, 11:45 PM

well, i installed samba last night and played around with smb.conf a little bit, also installed ogle media player, lopster p2p sharing software, some libimlib packages, as well as quake 3 arena today, don't remember doing anything out of league

opjose · 10-06-2004, 02:10 AM

As root

chkconfig --add dm

Then restart your machine.

xiongnu · 10-06-2004, 11:11 AM

tried above

still not working

btw, i don't know if i'm running on the correct kernel runlevel, could that be the cause? how do i check what level i'm running at?

askjeffro · 10-06-2004, 02:22 PM

This response will not be very good as I do not have my machine in front of me at the moment...

But because you can launch into xwindows there is a configuration you can setup within mandrake for booting to the graphical login or the terminal.

So I suggest playing around with the makndrake configuration and insure it says to boot to the GUI.

estatik · 10-06-2004, 06:33 PM

Check and see what your default run level is set at.

Code:

# vi /etc/inittab

For a graphical login, it should be set at 5, e.g. id:5:initdefault:

xiongnu · 10-06-2004, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by estatik
Check and see what your default run level is set at.

Code:

# vi /etc/inittab

For a graphical login, it should be set at 5, e.g. id:5:initdefault:

okey dokey

mine was set at id:3:initdefault: i changed to 5 and woola, have my graphical login screen back

this is interesting since i didn't remember changing that file, could it be some of the softwares i installed change the default runlevel?

but at least now i know how to login as root, ever since i created a user on my box, i lost root login option at login screen

nafan · 10-07-2004, 05:41 PM

There has probably neen an update for the initscripts package, the inittab file comes as part of it. For some reason mandrake have set the default runlevel to 3, which is full multiuser & Network with no GUI, which simply doesn't start the Display manager service.

Setting the initdefault to 5 runs all the same services as runlevel 3, but also start the 'dm' service, so you get a nice graphical login screen

Can't for the life of me figure out why they don't have it set to runlevel 5 by default though....