[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well.

rc-update says xdm is in default (and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login
says this is a good thing.

/etc/conf.d/xdm says
   DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus
  XSESSION="kde-3.5"

When I'm logged out, however, I've got that ugly login thing that
takes only a username and password.  There's no way to reboot without
somehow logging in as root, either on a PTY or through XDM.

I do have kdm-3.5.5-r1 emerged.

Logging does take me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way
to reboot.  Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution
/sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets
clobbered

I'd like to clean this up:  I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry
for rebooting.

Advice?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.

++ kevin

On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well.
>
> rc-update says xdm is in default (and
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login
> says this is a good thing.
>
> /etc/conf.d/xdm says
>    DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
> and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus
>   XSESSION="kde-3.5"
>
> When I'm logged out, however, I've got that ugly login thing that
> takes only a username and password.  There's no way to reboot without
> somehow logging in as root, either on a PTY or through XDM.
>
> I do have kdm-3.5.5-r1 emerged.
>
> Logging does take me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way
> to reboot.  Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution
> /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets
> clobbered
>
> I'd like to clean this up:  I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry
> for rebooting.
>
> Advice?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Dale]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
>
> ++ kevin
>
> On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well.
>>
>> rc-update says xdm is in default (and
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login
>> says this is a good thing.
>>
>> /etc/conf.d/xdm says
>>    DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
>> and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus
>>   XSESSION="kde-3.5"
>>
>> When I'm logged out, however, I've got that ugly login thing that
>> takes only a username and password.  There's no way to reboot without
>> somehow logging in as root, either on a PTY or through XDM.
>>
>> I do have kdm-3.5.5-r1 emerged.
>>
>> Logging does take me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way
>> to reboot.  Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution
>> /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets
>> clobbered
>>
>> I'd like to clean this up:  I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry
>> for rebooting.
>>
>> Advice?
>>
>> -- 
>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>>
>
>

I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way.  If you want to
reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work.  Naturally
the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot.

Glad you got it going.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Mick]

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On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
> >

> I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way.  If you want to
> reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work.  Naturally
> the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot.

Ctrl+Αlt+Backspace kills X which then respawns.  To kill xdm you could press 
Ctr+Alt+F1 to get into the console, login as root and run:

/etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap.  That avoids the need for a reboot.

If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login screen.  
Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it works fine.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 4/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > > XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > > system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
> > >
>
> > I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way.  If you want to
> > reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work.  Naturally
> > the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot.
>
> Ctrl+Αlt+Backspace kills X which then respawns.  To kill xdm you could press
> Ctr+Alt+F1 to get into the console, login as root and run:
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap.  That avoids the need for a reboot.
>
> If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login screen.
> Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it works fine.

I tried that. XDM refused to die.  That's why I did the reboot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Mick]

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On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:19, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap.  That avoids the need for a reboot.
> >
> > If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login
> > screen. Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it works fine.
>
> I tried that. XDM refused to die.  That's why I did the reboot.

/etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Mick,

> > I tried that. XDM refused to die.  That's why I did the reboot.  
> 
> /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.

zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by
letting the system start another instance.

killall -9 xdm is probably needed here, possibly followed by a zap.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

[Dale]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Mick,
>
>   
>>> I tried that. XDM refused to die.  That's why I did the reboot.  
>>>       
>> /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
>>     
>
> zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
> stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by
> letting the system start another instance.
>
> killall -9 xdm is probably needed here, possibly followed by a zap.
>
>
>   

And if you are paranoid, like me, you can do a "ps aux | grep xdm" to
make sure it is dead. 

I have to mention that I had a problem with KDE a couple times.  I would
close it, stop xdm using the script, do a kill and it was still running
several minutes later.  I had to reboot that time because I wasn't sure
what to do next.  When kill -9 < process # >doesn't work, something is .
. . . fishy.

I hate that he had to reboot though.  Sounds to much like winders.  O_O

Dale

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