Startup problem

[Asheville Joe]

/etc/inittab (unmodified) below.  Nothing about xdm or kdm in it, so it 
must be somewhere else.  I haven't delved into startup much yet.  I know 
there are a bunch of scripts that get run, but I don't really know which 
is which.

Joe

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels at drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly. 
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

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[bigbird at localhost etc]$ cd /etc/rc.d
[bigbird at localhost rc.d]$ ls
init.d/  rc0.d/  rc2.d/  rc4.d/  rc6.d/     rc.modules*
rc*      rc1.d/  rc3.d/  rc5.d/  rc.local*  rc.sysinit*
[bigbird at localhost rc.d]$ cd rc5.d
[bigbird at localhost rc5.d]$ ls
K15postgresql@     S12syslog@   S20xfs@        S55tmdns@       S90crond@
K90mysql@          S13partmon@  S25netfs@      S56rawdevices@  S92lisa@
removed/           S14nfslock@  S26apmd@       S56xinetd@      S95kheader@
S01switchprofile@  S15gpm@      S30dm@         S60cups@        S99devfsd@
S05harddrake@      S17alsa@     S40atd@        S75keytable@    S99linuxconf@
S10network@        S18sound@    S40saslauthd@  S80postfix@     S99local@
S11portmap@        S20random@   S52lads@       S85httpd@       S99wine@
[bigbird at localhost rc5.d]$

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Cyber Source wrote:

> Sounds like your kdm got whacked a little. Check /etc/inittab, you 
> could make it use kdm by putting in the line "x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm 
> -nodaemon" and comment out the line referring to xdm (I presume)
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:17, Asheville Joe wrote:
>
>>/Yesterday, I was trying print a couple of M$ Word files I got as email
>>attachments  (in OOo Write) and my system locked up.  Got out with a few
>>three finger salutes and was able to relogin as my user.  Duplicated it
>>again, but this time had to reset to get out of it.
>>
>>When I rebooted it gave me one of those options that are gone before you
>>can read them, so I hit reset and did it again.  It offered to let me
>>force a file system check.  I said yes.  It went through the whole thing
>>for hda7 (boot), claimed it didn't do it and asked me if I wanted to do
>>it again and allow repairs.  Trusting soul that I am, I said yes and it
>>went through several more steps, but didn't actually say anything about
>>what it may have fixed.
>>
>>When it (Mandrake 9.1) finished booting I got the normal blue screen of
>>hope, the wavy pattern screen of almost there, and then up poped "X
>>Window System Login".  My normal Mandrake login panel was gone.
>>
>>When I login, everything works as expected - kde comes up, etc., but
>>when I logout, all I get is the same Xwindows Login panel.  I no longer
>>have any option to shutdown or reboot at all.  The only way I figured
>>out to do that was to open an Xterm and issue the shutdown command as root.
>>
>>I just read through dmesg, and don't see any new complaints.
>>
>>I'm looking for any ideas as to what happened and how to get the
>>Mandrake login screen back.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Joe/
>>
> -- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com 
> <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
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