g wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
menu.lst is better known in the Fedora world as: /etc/grub.conf
if menu.lst is left as a link, which it does not seem to have to be.
I have employed the brute force solution:
/usr/sbin/gdm
[F8:root@orion /etc/rc.d]# l /usr/sbin/gdm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 666 2008-05-12 14:00 /usr/sbin/gdm*
[F8:root@orion /etc/rc.d]# chmod 400 /usr/sbin/gdm
[F8:root@orion /etc/rc.d]# l /usr/sbin/gdm
-r-------- 1 root root 666 2008-05-12 14:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
It is not executable anymore. But this should not be necessary. I want
it to boot to runlevel 3.
I changed /etc/inittab to id:3:initdefault:. It boots to runlevel 3, and
login displays the login
prompt, but before I can log in, it appears that some process runs
"telinit 5".
Then the gdm login request appears. Since I have not logged in yet, I
can't run ps to see what
process is running. It should not work this way.
I have run:
sudo grep -rs gdm /etc/ | less
sudo grep -rs xdm /etc/ | less
sudo grep -rs 'telinit 5' /etc/ | less
sudo grep -rs telinit /etc/ | less
sudo grep -rs 'runlevel 5' /etc/ | less
sudo grep -rs runlevel /etc/ | less
Xdm is not installed.
If there was something calling gdm in /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/event.d/, I
should have found it.
It's probably not in the startup scripts because it happens after
/bin/login has run.
Therefore, I ran:
"grep -rs /bin/gdm / | less" which produced:
Binary file /etc/prelink.cache matches
Binary file /var/lib/rpm/Packages matches
Binary file /var/cache/yum/updates/primary.sqlite matches
Binary file /var/cache/yum/AdditionalFedoraSoftware/primary.sqlite matches
Binary file /var/cache/yum/fedora/primary.sqlite matches
Non of these look like they would be running "/bin/gdm".
I should not have had to remove executable permissions from /bin/gdm.
Editing /etc/innittab
should have been sufficient. Surely, someone else has had this problem.
I'd sure like to
know what other process is running while /bin/login is waiting for me to
login.
bob
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