From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dunham Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 06:02:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Run Level 5 problems Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org David Andrew - Sun MDE 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