On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:21 -0400, Christophe PEREZ wrote:
> >> - create a user (with livecd/users I suppose)
> > 
> > livecd/users: cperez
> 
> of course.
> I tried that, and I have something very strange.
> I'm not very good at shell scripting, but when I see that, I don't find it
> really normal :
> livecd ~ # cat /root/.bashrc
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if [ -x /usr/bin/X ]; then
>         if [ -e /etc/su - chris -c startx ]; then
>                 rm -f /etc/su - chris -c startx
>                 su - chris -c startx
>                 cat /etc/motd
>         fi
> fi
> 
> "-x /usr/bin/X", I understand, but what is that :
> "-e /etc/su - chris -c startx" ???
> My livecd/users is "chris"
> 
> Of course, I always have an error at boot :
> .bashrc: line 4: [: too many arguments

OK.  This was an oversight on my part.  Here's how you can fix it
locally (this will be in the next catalyst)...

Edit /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/files/livecd-bashrc and change the third
mention of "startx", where it is on a line of its own, to ##STARTX.

Next, edit /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/runscript-support/livecdfs-update.sh
and change line 83 from:

	sed -i "s/startx/su - $first_user -c startx/" /root/.bashrc

to:

	sed -i "s/##STARTX/su - $first_user -c startx/" /root/.bashrc

This will resolve the bug.  I didn't pay much attention to what I was
doing here, apparently.  I apologise.

Anyway, I've now fixed this is catalyst 1.1.10.1 (the first bug fix).

> > If you follow the directions there, X will be auto-started.  I might
> > suggest avoiding the use of the xdm init script, and instead using a
> > livecd/xinitrc to start X, as the build will try to execute "startx"
> > automatically as the first user specified in livecd/users when using
> > livecd/type generic-livecd.
> 
> I found this solution too, but if I don't use xdm, what will execute X ?

Well, the root user is automatically logged in, and when his .bashrc is
executed, it will run startx, or in your case, it will run su - chris -c
startx to start X as user chris.

> Thank you for all your help even if you can't understand all what I mean ;-)

Hehehe.... it's all good.  Sometimes the language barrier makes things
harder, sometimes it doesn't exist.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux