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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:27:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910101227.49761.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854dca5c0910051608o525fe3f0m75f82c3c21d6bee1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Kyle Bader wrote:
> Output from "rc-update show" ?

Thanks Kyle, results follow at the bottom of the thread.

> On 10/4/09, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels.  On boot up kdm
> > fires
> > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their
> > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console.  Alt+F7
> > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong.  I
> > suspect that this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie
> > cron (the last two things shown on the console when the user gets dumped
> > back on it) but I can't
> > understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this
> > machine, when other machines with the same services work fine.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this one?  I can't see anything amiss on
> > dmesg, or messages/syslog.

# rc-update -s -v
               acpid |                               
           alsasound | boot                          
             apache2 |      default                  
            bootmisc | boot                          
             checkfs | boot                          
           checkroot | boot                          
               clock | boot                          
         consolefont | boot                          
          consolekit |                               
         crypto-loop |                               
               cupsd |      default                  
                dbus |      default                  
       device-mapper |                               
             dmcrypt |                               
            dmeventd |                               
             dnsextd |                               
                famd |                               
          fancontrol |                               
          fbcondecor | boot                          
                 gpm |                               
                hald |      default                  
              hdparm |      default                  
   hibernate-cleanup | boot                          
            hostname | boot                          
           ip6tables |                               
            iptables |      default                  
             keymaps | boot                          
                lisa |                               
          lm_sensors |                               
               local |      default nonetwork        
          localmount | boot                          
  mDNSResponderPosix |                               
               mdnsd |                               
     mit-krb5kadmind |                               
         mit-krb5kdc |                               
             modules | boot                          
               mysql |      default                  
        mysqlmanager |                               
            net.eth0 |      default                  
              net.lo | boot                          
            netmount |      default                  
                nscd |                               
             numlock |                               
             pciparm |                               
             portmap |                               
               psion |                               
             pwcheck |                               
           pydoc-2.5 |                               
           pydoc-2.6 |                               
               rdate |                               
             reslisa |                               
           rmnologin | boot                          
              rsyncd |                               
           saslauthd |                               
              serial | boot                          
                sshd |                               
           syslog-ng |      default                  
                udev |                               
    udev-dev-tarball |                               
          udev-mount |                               
      udev-postmount |                               
             urandom | boot                          
          vixie-cron |      default                  
                 xdm |      default                  
           xdm-setup |                               
              xinetd |                               

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-10 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-04  9:16 [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm Mick
2009-10-05 23:08 ` Kyle Bader
2009-10-10 11:27   ` Mick [this message]
2009-10-14 12:20     ` daid kahl

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