On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 12:34:11PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> Minor problem. Following the instructions found in "Red Hat Linux 6
> Unleashed," I tried to change my login manager to gdm.
Is this not the default? Thought it was...
> I created a file, "desktop" under /etc/sysconfig with only the
> word, "GNOME" in it. This was under root. When I was in my user
> account, and typed root, I couldn't save under sysconfig or
> anything. Perhaps that was my error.
I am not following this. ??? If you couldn't save the file, you likely
were not root (assuming I am half way understanding the situation).
> When I rebooted, hoping to see gdm instead of xdm, it stopped a bit
> after mounting the root filesystem. "Press Control-D for normal
> startup or root password for maintenance."
This sounds like a completely unrelated problem. Sounds like
filesystem corruption was detected. Read the screen very carefully and
see if this is what is going on. Maybe. If so, you need to run 'fsck
<dev_id>'.
> Once I pressed Control D and it did a controlled restart, or I got
> into root but I don't know the shell command for delete. (to try
> and delete the desktop file) Can someone tell me how to get out of
> this using the commandline stuff and then to have gdm start?
rm <file_name>
su to root, then:
echo GNOME > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
then
init 5
> ( I know not everyone likes it, but I'd like to have to ability to
> try out all the different window managers - kde, gnome, afterlevel,
> at will) Thank you.
I haven't used it, but I believe you have a 'switchdesk' command that
should do this for you. Possibly in one of the menus somewhere.
--
Hal B
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