* [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
@ 2009-10-04 9:16 Mick
2009-10-05 23:08 ` Kyle Bader
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From: Mick @ 2009-10-04 9:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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.
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Regards,
Mick
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
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
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kyle Bader @ 2009-10-05 23:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Output from "rc-update show" ?
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.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
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Kyle
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
2009-10-05 23:08 ` Kyle Bader
@ 2009-10-10 11:27 ` Mick
2009-10-14 12:20 ` daid kahl
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2009-10-10 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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 |
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Regards,
Mick
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm
2009-10-10 11:27 ` Mick
@ 2009-10-14 12:20 ` daid kahl
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From: daid kahl @ 2009-10-14 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
>> > 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.
If it's an IP address problem (where your hostname is getting changed
by dhcp), here's my logfile for a similar problem:
daid@flux ~/log $ more hostname.txt
Network Manager (at least up to 0.6.6) changes my hostname to dhcp#### and
garbage. it's annoying and not right.
The following seems to work.
daid@flux /etc/dhcp $ more dhclient.conf
send host-name "flux";
supersede host-name "flux";
For some reason I had to reinstall kwifimanager, but maybe that's unrelated (I
think it's unrelated).
Otherwise, I'm not sure. I also had trouble with kdm/xdm the first
time around, but if I look over the log file for my successful
install, there were no tricks involved.
Regards,
daid
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