Run Level 5 problems

Run Level 5 problems

[David Andrew - Sun MDE]

Hi,

I have been successful in loading UltraPenguin-1.1.9 in many Ultra platforms, 
but have not been able to log in at Run level 5.  Is there something I am 
missing?  I have done it as root, as well as with another username.  As soon 
as the name and password are entered, it tries to do something, then comes 
back up with the same login screen, with no reasonable exit.  I am running the 
newest UP RPMS, including the 2.2.2-3 kernel files, but this happened on 
earlier versions as well.  

I can get the X up with startx, but not by going to run level5.  This happens 
even if I have already logged in at level 3.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks,

David Andrew                Tel:  781-442-2316   Internal:   22316
Market Development Engineer - I/O Technologies   FAX:  781-442-1520	
Sun Microsystems, 1 Network Drive - M/S UBUR01-203,   Burlington, MA 01803	 
e-mail:  david.andrew@sun.com

Re: Run Level 5 problems

[Steve Dunham]

David Andrew - Sun MDE <David.Andrew@East.Sun.COM> writes:

> I have been successful in loading UltraPenguin-1.1.9 in many Ultra
> platforms, but have not been able to log in at Run level 5.  Is
> there something I am missing?  I have done it as root, as well as
> with another username.  As soon as the name and password are
> entered, it tries to do something, then comes back up with the same
> login screen, with no reasonable exit.  I am running the newest UP
> RPMS, including the 2.2.2-3 kernel files, but this happened on
> earlier versions as well.

> I can get the X up with startx, but not by going to run level5.
> This happens even if I have already logged in at level 3.

> Is this a known bug?

This generally happens when the startup scripts that xdm spawns
(Xsession) tries to run something like a window manager and fails
(when the script that runs the window manager exits, X will exit and
xdm will restart).  There _should_ be a file with a name similar to
".xsession.log" or ".xsession-errors" in the user's home directory
which may provide more insight into what exactly is going wrong (I'd
suspect a missing program or a bad path.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu

Re: Run Level 5 problems

[David Miller]

This is a known bug in xdm, reported (with a fix) by David Waddell on
the sparclinux list a week or so ago.  His fix (and what will be in
the next set of UltraPenguin X rpms) is to add:

DisplayManager*userPath:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
DisplayManager*systemPath:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11

to the /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config file.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

FW: Run Level 5 problems

[MattS]

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There is a file in /var/log... xdm-error.log. I have used it to troubleshoot
many a failed login attempt.  Also, I have found that just because you can
run startx and get into X ok, doesn't mean xdm will work. Sometimes xdm
won't recognize your .xinitrc or other startup file, alot of time it wants
.Xsession and .Xsession only. and sometimes it has to be executable. and
sometimes if you declare variables in your .Xsession they don't take.
(Although I suspect some of these problems were due to a buggy beta KDE
release.) I know the question had already been answered, I just wanted to
vent :) God I love Unix. =P

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Dunham [SMTP:dunham@cse.msu.edu]
> Sent:	Saturday, March 13, 1999 1:02 AM
> To:	David Andrew - Sun MDE
> Cc:	ultralinux@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject:	Re: Run Level 5 problems
> 
> David Andrew - Sun MDE <David.Andrew@East.Sun.COM> writes:
> 
> > I have been successful in loading UltraPenguin-1.1.9 in many Ultra
> > platforms, but have not been able to log in at Run level 5.  Is
> > there something I am missing?  I have done it as root, as well as
> > with another username.  As soon as the name and password are
> > entered, it tries to do something, then comes back up with the same
> > login screen, with no reasonable exit.  I am running the newest UP
> > RPMS, including the 2.2.2-3 kernel files, but this happened on
> > earlier versions as well.
> 
> > I can get the X up with startx, but not by going to run level5.
> > This happens even if I have already logged in at level 3.
> 
> > Is this a known bug?
> 
> This generally happens when the startup scripts that xdm spawns
> (Xsession) tries to run something like a window manager and fails
> (when the script that runs the window manager exits, X will exit and
> xdm will restart).  There _should_ be a file with a name similar to
> ".xsession.log" or ".xsession-errors" in the user's home directory
> which may provide more insight into what exactly is going wrong (I'd
> suspect a missing program or a bad path.)
> 
> 
> Steve
> dunham@cse.msu.edu

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