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 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