You can temporarily switch to graphical login using the command
telinit 5
and back to a textual login using
telinit 3
Good for testing your {g,x,k}dm setup.
Note that if your {g,x,k}dm setup is bad, you can (probably) do
a [ctrl[alt][backspace] to kill the X-server and get back to
a text prompt.
{[(Kent)]}
Sam MacDonald wrote:
> Just changing to a terminal login fixed the problem because gdm does not
> need to run. The login is not graphical so...
>
> It only starts if graphical login is the option used in inittab. I
> then fixed the permissions problem and might test it by setting the
> login back to graphical in the inittab. Low priority btw.
>
> Sam.
>
> bradyh at bitstream.net wrote:
>
>> GDM is the Gnome Display Manager but a lot of people use it because
>> it's a
>> pretty good one. If it's noticably slowing down your system you could
>> probably
>> use more memory.
>>
>> I've never tried it but if you're on an rpm based distro you should be
>> able to
>> remove it using:
>> rpm -e gdm
>>
>> Brady
>>
>> Quoting Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com>:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Story of my life with Linux.
>>>
>>> Does Linux (the system) turn gnome off when it starts KDE, for us KDE
>>> users?
>>> I think the answer is "no" because it needs it after a logout to
>>> prompt for login.
>>> So KDE users get the honor of using both KDE and gnome at the
>>> same time?
>>>
>>> <sidebar>
>>> So because I made the mistake, missing the "last" dialog box that
>>> says something like "do you want to use a graphical login? with the
>>> default of "use a graphical login". I've been cursed with a
>>> graphical login.
>>>
>>> If you remember our brave (ignorant) Linux user is also trying to get
>>> rid of the graphical login. See the thread "Lost". In the middle I
>>> put something about changing from graphical to terminal login.
>>>
>>> So I change the "inittab" file so it uses a "3" for multiuser login
>>> instead of a "5" for X11 and restart the machine.
>>> (Thanks to all for the information)
>>>
>>> Now this does not solve the original problem, it did stop the message
>>> coming up every 2 -5 minutes. Even without X windows running the
>>> message would display. Did I say X windows would start KDE without
>>> any problem? Well it does, but the message would pop up as above
>>> until I change "inittab".
>>> OH did I say X windows is running about 20% faster now? OH I didn't,
>>> well it is running about 20% faster then when I had the graphical
>>> login. Best guess; 2 windows managers were running all the time.
>>>
>>> Did I say OO Writer starts then it did before the change to a
>>> terminal login. Well it starts in 1 minute 25 seconds instead of 1
>>> minute 55 seconds. Yes, I timed it when I first installed it.
>>> </sidebar>
>>>
>>> Back to the original problem...
>>>
>>> So I set the permissions using the file manager but now the error is
>>> (it was before changeling to terminal login)
>>> "Server Authorization directory (Daemon/ServAuthdir) is set to
>>> /var/gdm but has the wrong permissions, it should have permissions of
>>> 0750. Please correct the permissions or the gdm configuration
>>> /etc/X11/gem/gdm.conf and restart gdm"
>>>
>>> For the life of me I can't remember what the "human" values of 0750
>>> are. And I can't remember the command to set permissions. The
>>> permissions should be corrected just in case I want to torcher myself
>>> with a graphical login in some far off time.
>>>
>>> Sam.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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