From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My2qc-0002fU-E9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:20:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C45C4E08BD; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CE1E08BD for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so396057ewy.34 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:20:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=a/CiQT2hdjifa2Yn+bqB4S9dmdUSMvrfz1oRoDXRvc4=; b=DxPJNan59/WDFI/fQdIz05aAB57OrKATUgfM+syGoJJae55jEZOSgh8ERFViYlQlCz NHP5cxvlsD8FzU6Q5Uwf64Cn4/j7PTS/5VKNDxKduykHa/Ec4tOBGLR/I24mywQGYq22 VFbxsCsOSlogUAueXwBHkeFjtnCS46r29c5ak= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EKbZc74GIcBbPwJaju9LvmswMaqbCmRHi8ISBAr0NbcX5Q5y5gGvZG0EO9D3HUzOlQ jZLbuMZ0WMi11BW4GlCA6q+uApxvFnlV3WaSPGHBL/ZucQHYo8w4HSF2d4Z0B7at3IY8 UnSJv6J2jh8ehxoyq3gZyzmAhQzYh5bUezaSM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.138.34 with SMTP id n34mr676105hbn.64.1255522851818; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:20:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910101227.49761.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200910041016.16456.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <854dca5c0910051608o525fe3f0m75f82c3c21d6bee1@mail.gmail.com> <200910101227.49761.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:20:51 +0900 Message-ID: <3ac129340910140520i2d7f2df8p74ed92814462fc37@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootup drops back to console from kdm From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b9b999d5-3ecb-417c-ad3f-8c1cbd50fd76 X-Archives-Hash: ff8183926f9829c38756a4c74b23b1c4 >> > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. =A0On boot up = kdm >> > fires >> > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering thei= r >> > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. =A0Alt+F= 7 >> > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. = =A0I >> > 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 dump= ed >> > 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