[linux-help] Re: CD-ROM boot problems RH7.3

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ivan Trail wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 01 June 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
> > Oh, and don't forget the final :
> >
> > For a graphical login, the line in /etc/inittab should read
> >
> > id:5:initdefault:
> >
> >
> > Adam
> 
> The file has the line as you said for a graphical login.  IE runlevel 5.
> wonder why it doesnt like it.
> 
> Time for a lot of research.....

the other interesting line in /etc/inittab looks like this (at least in
Red Hat 7.2):

  x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

this runs /etc/X11/prefdm on entering run-level 5, which the "id:5:initdefault:"
line sets as the default. next thing is to track down /etc/X11/prefdm: it's a
bash script, and the first thing it does is to look for two files:

  /etc/sysconfig/autologin
  /usr/sbin/autologin

now, my system doesn't have either of those files, so even if i changed my
initdefault line to runlevel 5, i still wouldn't get a graphic login, because
there's no configuration file to tell prefdm to run it, and there's no
program for prefdm to run. if you don't have these files, you probably
have to load some more rpms. the following look like candidates:

  autologin
  autologin-kde
  autologin-gnome

beyond that you'll have to look at what the new parts provide you. i think
it's likely that at least one of these parts will have a program to configure
autologin.

if you're running red hat, this should help. if not, start with /etc/inittab
and track down what it does at runlevel 5 that it doesn't do at runlevel 3.

> Thanks for the suggestion though.
> 
> Ivan

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