Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
I can login in again, but the only way to do that is thru console login and then startx. what does init 5 do instead of startx ? cheers /Roger -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:54:07 +1000 Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au wrote: Hi. Hi, I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen that SHOULD be there is not there. This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks too that inittab still has started all 6. When I log out then X returns to the first login screen (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn a new X session and the only two things I can do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. Anybody knows what this might be? I believe FC now uses upstart (eventd) for its init system now. I don't have FC10 handy so will be using Ubuntu as my guide. Directories and files may be in a different location. To change what getty's are started up go into /etc/event.d and you should find a file for each instance of getty you want started. ie) tty1, tty2, tty3.. Hope this helps you out. Jobst -- Regards Mick Pollard ( lunix ) BOFH Excuse of the day: Undiagnosable Syntax Dump pgp61AGzDVrFz.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
I have been looking into these files, over and over again :-( but there is nothing indicating an error. X is running fine and the ONLY thing that isnt working is the logout with X restarting (respawning) and presenting the login box. I can login in again, but the only way to do that is thru console login and then startx. ... still hangs jobst On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:13:41PM +1000, Ken Foskey (fos...@tpg.com.au) wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:54 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Anybody knows what this might be? Based on Debian but hopefully it wont be too far wrong. Before you start a new X look at the ~/.xsession_errors file and see if anything is there. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and finally look in /var/log/gdm/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- The computer is your friend. It never argues until Gates squeezed Chilly through the CDROM door! | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
I solved it and I hope this will help a few people. Its got to do that Fedora (and othe linux??) are moving away from xfs (fontserver). In its place sits a directory called /etc/X11/fontpath.d that contains links to all FONT directories on the system You place a link in there and libXfont will inform X that a new font is available. When the upgrade was done to Fedora 10 somehow not all links were made and X didnt get all the fonts is needed. The problem I had that NOTHING showed up in the logs and X was actually quite happily working and only failed to respawn after LOGOUT. Further some of the messages are now logged to /var/log/kdm.log. The ONLY thing that was a little odd was the weird log message of startkde startkde stopped and not respawning. I then used an application that I had not used after the upgrade and suddenly one line in the .xsession-errors showed up fixed font missing. So I did some research and learned that the /etc/X11/fontpath.d had replaced xfs ... and I made sure that all the fonts of the system were properly linked. Jobst On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:54:07PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach (jo...@barrett.com.au) wrote: Hi. I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen that SHOULD be there is not there. This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks too that inittab still has started all 6. When I log out then X returns to the first login screen (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn a new X session and the only two things I can do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. Anybody knows what this might be? Jobst -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Nothing is stationary. Everything wiggles. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
Hi. I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen that SHOULD be there is not there. This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks too that inittab still has started all 6. When I log out then X returns to the first login screen (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn a new X session and the only two things I can do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. Anybody knows what this might be? Jobst -- People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - Bertolt Brecht | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jo...@barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:54 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Anybody knows what this might be? Based on Debian but hopefully it wont be too far wrong. Before you start a new X look at the ~/.xsession_errors file and see if anything is there. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and finally look in /var/log/gdm/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE [SLUG] Booting (and logout) problem
Perhaps you can see error messages better buy adding --noclearto your first getty like so: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear This will not clear the screen. Cheers Roger -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
