OK, I've never run SuSE. And I see some things that I wasn't expecting and don't understand. So I'm probably not the right person to be trying to help you with this. But I will point out what I noticed in case you want to try to run the issue down yourself and to call them to the attention of anybody else who tries to help you. Also, you might want to use the
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Originally Posted by jrella
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linux-test:~ # ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
K09cron K15portmap S01dbus S08smbfs
K10nscd K15splash_early S01earlysyslog S11alsasound
K10postfix K16slpd S01fbset S11irq_balancer
K10suseRegister K16syslog S01random S11kbd
K10xdm K17network S01resmgr S11novell-zmd
K11alsasound K19earlygdm S02earlykbd S11powersaved
K11irq_balancer K20earlykbd S02haldaemon S11running-kernel
K11novell-zmd K20haldaemon S03earlygdm S11splash
K11powersaved K21acpid S05network S11sshd
K11running-kernel K21dbus S06slpd S12nscd
K11splash K21earlysyslog S06syslog S12postfix
K11sshd K21fbset S07portmap S12suseRegister
K14nfs K21random S07splash_early S12xdm
K14nfsboot K21resmgr S08nfs S13cron
K14smbfs S01acpid S08nfsboot
linux-test:~ #
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I've highlighted the entries above that sound like they might be relevant to a GUI. There are two things that baffle me here:
1) In any given runlevel (in this case, 5), I expect to see each service (at most) listed
either starting with a K (kill)
or an S (start), not both. Yet these services, along with most or all of the others, have both. (In case you aren't aware, the two digits after the K or S determine the sequence in which that service is killed or started.)
2) The names
earlygdm and
xdm suggest a
combination of both
gdm and
xdm which makes no sense to me. Maybe looking at the scripts themselves would clarify what is going on. If you want to take a look at these scripts they should be located in the
/etc/init.d directory.
I also found the following comment in
inittab rather baffling. That is because
xdm is a GUI login manager, and as such, I would not expect it to be running in runlevel 3. (I did check some
SLED documentation to verify what the runlevels mean in SLED. Ummm. I just noticed that was actually SLES documentation, but I would think the runlevel usage would be consistent.)
Quote:
Code:
#
# Note: Do not use tty7 in runlevel 3, this virtual line
# is occupied by the programm xdm.
#
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