On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 12:26, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hi eveyone, Word. > I use kdm to log in normally, but now it just restarts and I can't log in as > anyone but root. And root can only log in using 'failsafe' mode. Note, I can > log in from a tty with no problem. It seems to be a kdm/X problem. sounds like there's a /tmp/.X0-lock file. rm it. > Does anyone know which runlevel is a non-X login on Debian? I remember from > the past that RedHat used runlevel 5 for graphical login and runlevel 3 for > text-based. Default runlevel on Debian is 2. X spawns from an init script in debian, not from inittab. To make it stop trying to start, ssh in and run "update-rc.d -f xdm remove" > > If I can kill kdm completely then I can try a 'startx' and capture the error > output. Does anyone remember the command line to do that? It's something > like: > > % startx %1> %2 blah blah blah > startx 2>&1>filename should do the trick > I'd love to hear ideas. I can think of all sorts of stuff, most of which is useless :-) -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. pub 1024D/9A0DDC59 2001-12-12 Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> Key fingerprint = 8FCD A1EE CEA7 DEE1 9361 F32C 0A90 30D1 9A0D DC59 sub 1024g/1FC75C99 2001-12-12 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020208/27437095/attachment.pgp