Mandrake login problem

[JJ Neff]

/me must remember to spell check from time to time.... 

Obviously you can't go to a Toe-Linit 3 that would be very painful!

JJ
--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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