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Re: Help: init 5 / xdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Wed Oct 21 10:18:24 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <eck@ti.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:30:09 -0400
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Try changing the line to point to the actual location of XDM instead of the
symlink.
Use /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm instead of /usr/bin/X11.
Post your results...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Terrance L Eck <eck@ti.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 9:52 AM
Subject: Help: init 5 / xdm
>Hello,
>I'm trying to run xdm via the "init 5" command. The system tries to switch
>to run level 5 and start xdm but spits out the following:
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
>INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
>
>after about 5 minutes the above is repeated.
>
>I've also tried to edit /etc/inittab to change the run level to
>5 and after rebooting I still get the above message. Any ideas
>as to how to solve this problem?
>
>Terry Eck
>eck@ti.com
>
>
>
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