Startup problem

[Cyber Source]

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

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