Hi, I'll be surprised if you even receive the reply, considering what's happened, but if you do, here goes... First, yes there is a way of restarting *dm without rebooting ( actually, you only need to reboot if you upgrade your kernel or libc, not otherwise :-) rcxdm stop [change what you like] rcxdm start Now for next step: Lower your initdefault in /etc/inittab from 3 to 2. This makes sure xdm won't fire up at boot, so makes for easier debugging. The errors can be found in the first pages of your /var/log/messages. Please check there, and if there are relevant errors, either search for a solution, or paste the errors into a letter and ask us :-) head -100 /var/log/messages <--- this is how to get the first 100 lines of messages Also, did you change anything else, since you booted the last time, until this fatal reboot ? Regards, Tor Sigurdsson On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:41:02AM -0500, Jerry L Kreps wrote:
I was trying to work out why my KDE2 installation was maxing out my swap file and slowing to a stop. I noticed that I was still running /opt/kde/bin/kdm to run kde2!!! Also, Tor suggested that I check /etc/ld.so.config to see if it contained /opt/kde2/lib /usr/lib/qt2/lib
It didn't.
So, I added those two lines and ran ldconfig. I edited the kdm script to change kde to kde2 and the path to /opt/kde2/bin/kdm
Then I rebooted to make the changes effect. (Is there a way to change the kdm without rebooting?) That's when the problems started.
I get a ton of error messages while the kernel is booting, and a message about "XBINDIR" not binding, or something like that. It goes by too fast to read. Here is an example of the messages: /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S20rusersd: /etc/rc.config.d/idedma.rc.config: Permission deinied
The same for S20rwhod, S20sendmail, and S21 stuff, etc.... Which is will I will be supprised if this email gets out.
What do I do to fix this stuff. JLK
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