Mandrake login problem

[Asheville Joe]

OK.  I assume this means doing an rpm -e ....
I also assume I need to be in some sort of non-gui environment (at least 
non-kde) when I do it.  Can I just go to a virtual terminal, or do I 
have to boot up in command line mode (e.g. from my mkcdrec backup CD)?  
Usually, it's not good to uninstall things that you are actively using.

I've actually never had to uninstall anything on Linux yet!  Pretty cool 
for how long I've been using the system.

Thanks.

Joe


JJ Neff wrote:

>THis has happened to me before after gettign corruption due to wahtever
>reasons.  I normally do a reinstall of KDE and everything works out OK.  If you
>try urpmi kde and it tells you everything already installed, uninstall kde and
>k3b (if installed) and the urpmi kde.  Your kde settings are in your home dir
>so they should be fine.  THat's how I've doen it.  Of course you can add kdm
>manually and repoint the dm start up files to kdm... 
>
>JJN
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>I had a problem recently and Mandrake's equivalent of scandisk repaired 
>>my disk during boot up.  Since then, when I boot, I get xdm loaded and 
>>it puts up an Xwindows Login instead of the mandrake login panel.  Among 
>>other things, this prevents me from shutting down without going to an Xterm.
>>
>>I've been researching it and have found that /etc/X11/prefdm chooses the 
>>display manager by reading a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and also by 
>>searching for window managers.  Parts of the code do which on mdkkdm, 
>>kdm , gdm, and finally, xdm.
>>
>>    
>>
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