Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 91062
error changing display manager
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:48 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: Reading /etc/X11/prefdm $DISPLAYMANAGER is used to change selected display manager using data from file /etc/systemconfig/desktop Writing at this file not GNOME (KDE for example) DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE At startup and shoutdown all work correct. The problem is changing user exiting from KDE or GNOME, the screen is black and the system dont' work Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.edit file /etc/sysconfig/desktop 2.insert line DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE 3.if display manager start at startup reboot 4.logon as user or root at gnome or kde 5.select exit to reenter as another user Actual Results: The screen is black and the system is bolocked Expected Results: return to logon manager Additional info: probing ctrl-alt F1 or ctrl-alt backspace or ctrl-alt - or ctrl-alt + i don't obtain result
Possibly relevant: doing testing this morning and changed system to use xdm (DISPLAYMANAGER=XDM). Upon reboot got error message 'xrdb: unknown command' - or some such message. (Sorry the actual log file has been overwritten now.) Got around this by changing /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to specify '/usr/bin/X11/xrdb' rather than just 'xrdb' (in line 9). However it could have just been me doing something wrong!
Changing component to kdebase, as kdm isn't a part of XFree86.
Does it work if you change DISPLAYMANAGER to XDM or GNOME? It's strange, i cannot reproduce this problem! Could you please attach all config files under /etc/X11/xdm/ ? which XFree86 version is running on your machine?
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