[Re: [NCLUG] Re: No Desktop Manager]

[M Butcher]

I should have specified _when_ to run those. You'll have to login (through 
GPM), and then (when you get the blank screen), switch to a virtual consol 
(CTRL-ALT-F1), login, and then do the 'ps' commands.

It might be useful to do 'ps -efH' (H organizes in a hierarchy), and look for 
what processes are children of GPM. Here's mine:

root       891     1  0 Mar04 ?        00:00:00   kdm -nodaemon
root     16489   891  0 Apr09 ?        03:34:37     /etc/X11/X -auth 
/etc/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-h2EO0e
root     16821   891  0 Apr09 ?        00:00:00     -:0
mbutcher 16834 16821  0 Apr09 ?        00:00:00       sh /usr/bin/startkde

Note that I'm running KDM, which spawned X and -:0, which spawned startkde.

Matt

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 04:50 pm, you wrote:
> I tried /etc/X11/gdm and it told me that gdm is a directory. Blush. I knew
> that. So I typed cd gdm and it said cd: gdm: No such file or directory.
> Then I tried ps -ef | grep sawfish and got absolutely nothing. So I tried
> ps -ef | grep gnome and got:
> root 228 212 0 16:41 tty1 00:00:00 grep gnome
>
> Judy
>
>
> M Butcher <mbutcher at aleph-null.tv> wrote:
> BTW - I think I asked before... you said you are running SawFish. Are you
> running Gnome as well? I personally have never gotten SawFish to run
> without gnome-session
>
> try:
> ps -ef | grep sawfish
>
> and then ps -ef  | grep gnome
>
> you should see entries for both.
>
> 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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