Stop KDE from launching at boot 476
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:31:20 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows 3 things though; * Once my User logout occurs (End Session in X...
Debian, by default, doesn't *have* any distinctions among runlevels 2..5. Runlevels 2..5 all do exactly the same things, that is. This confuses many people. Go figure.
Dances With Crows Okee dokee ;-) oh, before I forget -- after running 'apt-get install kdm' I was finally presented with the 3-4 Shutdown options (End Current Session, Turn Off Computer, Restart Computer...
Yep. You need to do something like "update-rc.d $NAME defaults". $NAME is probably xdm here. The xdm script, by ancient convention, launches a display manager, usually kdm or gdm these days. I'm sorry that I don't know exactly how to set this up on Debian, but the Debian system here at work will never run X so I never bothered learning how to set X up there. (Converting my laptop and desktop to Debian may happen when I have Copious Free Time, ie "next year".) For Gentoo, you editetc-rc.conf so that it includes the line "DISPLAYMANAGER='kdm' " , then you do "rc-update add xdm default" , and then kdm will be started on every boot.
Except for Debian, Gentoo, and Slack.
This might happen, but it'd be more probable for X to try and start, then fail, then after it fails a few times, you'd get dumped at a login: prompt.
Yep, that'd be useful to see, but for a Debian system, it probably won't matter. iforone, try the update-rc.d thing mentioned above and see what you get. HTH,
-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL
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