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Re: Help: init 5 / xdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrance L Eck)
Thu Oct 22 08:48:12 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:50:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Terrance L Eck <eck@ti.com>
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Since others may be interested in the solution I'm posting the results.
Thanks to Jose M. Sanchez for the answer. Turns out there is no xdm
located under /usr/bin/X11. I changed the line at the bottom of inittab
to read /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm and now runlevel 5 works.
However, when I login as a normal user and perform su to get root access
I cannot open an X application such as nedit. Says something about not
getting display 0:0. I remember sometime ago the answer was posted to this
list. Can someone tell me the command to use after I su to root so that I
can run X applications? A pointer to where the answer is will be enough.
Terry Eck
eck@ti.com
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> 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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