Mandrake login problem

[Cyber Source]

I just noticed a typo, the semi-colon after respawn should be a colon
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:13, Cyber Source wrote:

> You could bypass that stuff and in your /etc/inittab file, comment out
> the line for prefdm and if your login manager is kdm then put the line
> x:5:respawn;/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon 
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:36, Asheville Joe 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.
> > 
> > I su'd to root and did a which on each one of those files and the only 
> > one it found was xdm.  So that's where my problem seems to be.
> > 
> > I need to know where mdkkdm, kdm, and gdm are supposed to be.  Then, 
> > hopefully, I can either restore them from my dump backup or download 
> > them from somewhere.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Joe
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