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Re: xdm misbehaving!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey D. Bennett)
Mon Oct 21 18:43:57 1996

From: "Geoffrey D. Bennett" <geoffrey@netcraft.com.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:41:20 +0930 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199610202116.RAA00531@arion.mps.ohio-state.edu> from "Sergey Panov" at Oct 20, 96 05:16:00 pm
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> I used to have chooser running. In /etc/inittab I had:
> ==================================================
> ...
> id:5:initdefault:
> ...
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> x1:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
> x2:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/X -inderect arion
                              ^^^^^^^^^
This looks like a problem (should be -indirect).

> ==================================================
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I am not getting chooser anymore. Instead I am getting:
> 
> INIT: Id "x2" reswaping too fast ....
> 
> and just normal xdm login.

Regards,
-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/


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