[olug] xdm

ktb x.y.f at home.com
Sun Mar 25 23:36:33 UTC 2001


On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:22:21PM -0600, mesc wrote:
> Does anyone know what would make the line id:3:initdefault:in my
> /etc/inittab file change to id:2:initdefault:by itself? The next to last
> time I booted debian up it went right into the xdm login screen and I
> couldn't log in so I booted up with my boot disk and the linux 1 thing
> and looked at the /etc/inittab file and saw it changed so I changed it
> back I also saw S99xdm in /etc/rc3.d so I renamed it s99xdm but it still
> booted into xdm the next time I booted up.What could I be missing?
> 

Run-level 2 is the correct default on debian.  Either remove xdm -
# dpkg -r xdm
or
remove it from your startup scripts -
# update-rc.d xdm remove
hth,
kent
 
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 From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted
     First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke



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