hi,

I changed the default runlevel in inittab from 3 to 4 to start X immediately after reboot, but once the login screen appears it gets into a loop... I enter my username and password, after which fluxbox is supposed to start. it does seem to start but after halve a second the screen returns to the login screen... and when I login a second time, it does the same: there seems to be some kind of login loop. It doesn.t seem to read the xinitrc file properly.

But then this, when I start the comp.The strange thing is, when I'm in runlevel 3 and I manually start X (startx) there is no problem.

Somewhere between authenticating and starting fluxbox there seems to be a problem...

I tried to edit the X init files and everything, but I can.t get it to work... and I don.t understand why runlevel 4 doesn.t work from after boot, when it does work from the commandline.

running slackware 9.1, Xfree86 4.3.0., xdm, fluxbox (as only WM), kernel 2.6.9

can anyone help me?

sounds like you have "2" xinitrc files.........

one would be in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
and the other is in your ~/home/ directory.............

that is not the case, I only have 1 xinitrc
but I am pretty sure that the problem is related to XDM. It does not initialise fluxbox. Any ideas how to solve this problem? I tried to replace xsm in Xsession with fluxbox, but it doesn.t work...

I have to specify my window manager somehow, but I don.t know how...

I'm pretty sure that even if he did have 2 xinitrc files the one in ~/home takes precedence over the other.

Namaseit is correct. Many people have two, the first being the system wide default, for users who dont have one in ~/, and the second (in ~/) overriding the first, if its there.

fixed the problem... xinitrc was not executable... but I still don.t understand why startx did work...

startx does NOT initiate runlevel 4 or 5. It simply starts X from runlevel 3.
To avoid a nasty loop, before changing the runlevel in inittab, experiment by running from CLI:
init 4 until you get everything worked out, then change inittab. make sure your graphics card is correctly configured first to avoid the nasty loop.