Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
>> > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm >> > fires >> > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their >> > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7 >> > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. I >> > suspect that this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie >> > cron (the last two things shown on the console when the user gets dumped >> > back on it) but I can't >> > understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this >> > machine, when other machines with the same services work fine. If it's an IP address problem (where your hostname is getting changed by dhcp), here's my logfile for a similar problem: d...@flux ~/log $ more hostname.txt Network Manager (at least up to 0.6.6) changes my hostname to dhcp and garbage. it's annoying and not right. The following seems to work. d...@flux /etc/dhcp $ more dhclient.conf send host-name "flux"; supersede host-name "flux"; For some reason I had to reinstall kwifimanager, but maybe that's unrelated (I think it's unrelated). Otherwise, I'm not sure. I also had trouble with kdm/xdm the first time around, but if I look over the log file for my successful install, there were no tricks involved. Regards, daid
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Kyle Bader wrote: > Output from "rc-update show" ? Thanks Kyle, results follow at the bottom of the thread. > On 10/4/09, Mick wrote: > > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm > > fires > > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their > > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7 > > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. I > > suspect that this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie > > cron (the last two things shown on the console when the user gets dumped > > back on it) but I can't > > understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this > > machine, when other machines with the same services work fine. > > > > Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this one? I can't see anything amiss on > > dmesg, or messages/syslog. # rc-update -s -v acpid | alsasound | boot apache2 | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot consolekit | crypto-loop | cupsd | default dbus | default device-mapper | dmcrypt | dmeventd | dnsextd | famd | fancontrol | fbcondecor | boot gpm | hald | default hdparm | default hibernate-cleanup | boot hostname | boot ip6tables | iptables | default keymaps | boot lisa | lm_sensors | local | default nonetwork localmount | boot mDNSResponderPosix | mdnsd | mit-krb5kadmind | mit-krb5kdc | modules | boot mysql | default mysqlmanager | net.eth0 | default net.lo | boot netmount | default nscd | numlock | pciparm | portmap | psion | pwcheck | pydoc-2.5 | pydoc-2.6 | rdate | reslisa | rmnologin | boot rsyncd | saslauthd | serial | boot sshd | syslog-ng | default udev | udev-dev-tarball | udev-mount | udev-postmount | urandom | boot vixie-cron | default xdm | default xdm-setup | xinetd | -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
Output from "rc-update show" ? On 10/4/09, Mick wrote: > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm > fires > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7 brings > them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. I suspect that > this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie cron (the last two > things shown on the console when the user gets dumped back on it) but I > can't > understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this machine, > when other machines with the same services work fine. > > Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this one? I can't see anything amiss on > dmesg, or messages/syslog. > -- > Regards, > Mick > -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
