gnome startup

[chrisxed at usa.net]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:

> (see what run level 5 is doing
> in the the /etc/inittab and try that as root.)
> you may want to try logging in over the network, and switching to
> runlevel  3. if you don't have a network, uh.  i'm at a loss then. 
A boot disk should work for this. Lord knows, I've "locked my keys in my
computer" by messing around with xdm and friends.

> are you using the XDM or GDM display manager?
I don't have anything too brilliant contribute, but I'd add that there
could also be kdm. I've just been investigating RH's latest init circus.
Quite a mess as usual. 

The question that really puzzles me (slightly new topic, but related) is
the who command. I wonder how many of you using Red Hat 6.1 see what I see
when I type who - nothing! This means that the talk daemon doesn't believe
I'm logged in, among other things. I've found with xdm and kdm it does sign
me up for the who list, but gdm doesn't. Going to a text console and
logging in, of course, does what unix people expect. I knew that
new-fangled graphics stuff was up to no good!

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