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This is a laptop I'd not updated in a while. so when I did, I just picked replace all confs. nothing much was customoized so I figured no foul no harm.
updated-grub
reboot
no longin manager
startx works.
checked /etc/rc.d/rc.4 everything looks okay
checked all of the if statements to see what is there and what is not. got to kdm it is there.
Code:
userx@slack14.2plus.gm:~
$ ls /etc/rc.d/rc.4.local
ls: cannot access '/etc/rc.d/rc.4.local': No such file or directory
$ ls /usr/bin/gdm
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/gdm': No such file or directory
$ ls /usr/sbin/gdm
ls: cannot access '/usr/sbin/gdm': No such file or directory
$ ls /opt/kde/bin/kdm
ls: cannot access '/opt/kde/bin/kdm': No such file or directory
BINGO
$ ls /usr/bin/kdm
/usr/bin/kdm
$ /usr/bin/kdm
Only root wants to run kdm
I've never had this issue before and do not know how to proceed.
(yes I know root starts the manager, I'm in user, and x is already started, I just did that last line to see what I'd see).
that is for choosing what dt/wm for use of startx. the login manager .. wait. this jarred a memory. let me go check my inittab file for boot levels. I bet that is it.
thanks for jarring a memoery. my brain is pre occupied at the moment. thanks again.!!!
Your post is (purposefully or ignorantly) devoid of relevant detail. In what way do you experience "no longin manager"?
Is that laptop actually booting into runlevel 4 at all?
If you updated your Slackware after a long while, then a newer 'sysvinit-scripts' (last updated two months ago) will have been installed. In that case you may have overwritten your /etc/inittab with the default one that comes with the package. And by default it will boot your computer into runlevel 3 (console login).
Your post is (purposefully or ignorantly) devoid of relevant detail. In what way do you experience "no longin manager"?
Is that laptop actually booting into runlevel 4 at all?
If you updated your Slackware after a long while, then a newer 'sysvinit-scripts' (last updated two months ago) will have been installed. In that case you may have overwritten your /etc/inittab with the default one that comes with the package. And by default it will boot your computer into runlevel 3 (console login).
Just to clarify... Slackware Official and even -Current still use KDM, but KTown (KDE5/Plasma5) does not and uses SDDM instead, just as uteck's linked Phoronix page noted, right?
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