[NCLUG] Re: No Desktop Manager

[M Butcher]

Will get back to you Monday. In the mean time, try "linux 3" in LILO (note 
the space). In runlevel three, X is not usually running. In the case you 
mentioned below, you were in runlevel 5 (presumably... don't know if that is 
the number Debian uses for it).

If you want, you could look at /etc/innittab... the distros I've used have 
some good comments on runlevels in there.

Will respond w/ more detail on Mon.

Matt

On Friday 27 April 2001 05:30 pm, you wrote:
> OK - I ran 'ps -ef' and while I don't want to write out *everything* that
> it showed, I did look for gdm-related things, as I saw Gnome Desktop
> Manager flash by. I also am including a gpm-related thing, because I don't
> know if it's relevant or not.
>
> root 155 1 0 17:07ttySO 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/ttySO -t m
> root 207 1 0 17:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root 218 207 0 17:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm
> root 223 218 9 17:07 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/gdmlogin --disable-soun
>
> I'd be interested in knowing what these things mean.
>
> I couldn't get in by typing "linux3" - it didn't like that. Likewise, when
> I tried typing in "startx" in text mode (having gotten to text mode via
> Ctrl-Alt-F1), it told me it was already running.
>
> Judy
>
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