[ltp] Major crash with a TP600 on RH 7.2

[Kirk Turner-Rustin]

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:54 am, Adam Benjamin wrote:
[snip]
>
> > After login, first command that came up to my mind: 'startx' !
> >
> > The X system did start, as usual. This is, up to now, the last time
>
> Bizzare.  I don't know why it wouldn't start automatically but *would*
> start manually.

I do -- the X login manager (xdm or kdm or the prefdm script or equivalent) 
isn't working. The login manager is generally executed from an appropriate 
line in /etc/inittab, whereas it generally is not executed from 'startx'. I 
only know this because I once had to deal with the same "respawn" messages 
when trying to boot into runlevel 5.

Bernard, look for a line in /etc/inittab like the following:

x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

where /etc/X11/prefdm may be something else, like xdm. Whichever *dm 
program is referenced may have gotten corrupted, or if it's a shell script 
(like prefdm) it may refer to another file that is missing or corrupted.

-- 
Kirk Turner-Rustin
Programmer/Analyst
ktrustin@owu.edu
Ohio Wesleyan University
http://www.owu.edu

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