Mandrake login problem

[JJ Neff]

I always drop to Term 1 (alt-Ctrl-F1)

THen I log in as root and do a telinit 3 then I'm sure the GUI is not running. 
Then I fix gui and can g back and forth from telinint 5 to toelinit 3 to stop
and start windowing services.

Even after installing and uninstalling I ususally do not have to reboot!  That
to me is the really big thing...

JJ
--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> 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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