<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/1.1.8">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Sounds like your kdm got whacked a little. Check /etc/inittab, you could make it use kdm by putting in the line "x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon" and comment out the line referring to xdm (I presume)<BR>
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:17, Asheville Joe wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>
<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>Yesterday, I was trying print a couple of M$ Word files I got as email
attachments (in OOo Write) and my system locked up. Got out with a few
three finger salutes and was able to relogin as my user. Duplicated it
again, but this time had to reset to get out of it.
When I rebooted it gave me one of those options that are gone before you
can read them, so I hit reset and did it again. It offered to let me
force a file system check. I said yes. It went through the whole thing
for hda7 (boot), claimed it didn't do it and asked me if I wanted to do
it again and allow repairs. Trusting soul that I am, I said yes and it
went through several more steps, but didn't actually say anything about
what it may have fixed.
When it (Mandrake 9.1) finished booting I got the normal blue screen of
hope, the wavy pattern screen of almost there, and then up poped "X
Window System Login". My normal Mandrake login panel was gone.
When I login, everything works as expected - kde comes up, etc., but
when I logout, all I get is the same Xwindows Login panel. I no longer
have any option to shutdown or reboot at all. The only way I figured
out to do that was to open an Xterm and issue the shutdown command as root.
I just read through dmesg, and don't see any new complaints.
I'm looking for any ideas as to what happened and how to get the
Mandrake login screen back.
Thanks.
Joe</I></FONT></PRE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD>
-- <BR>
Cyber Source <<A HREF="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</A>>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>