Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
Ivan, >        I guess that the inittab(5) entry in question is only started >        after rc.local finishes.  Therefore, starting startx(1) in the >        background may help. That was it. Adding "&" at the end of the command in rc.local did the trick! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Tech Geek writes: > > However, I want to do a auto login into my fluxbox (instead of user > > typing in username and password in xdm) and I still want the basic > > login console on Serial Port 1. So I removed xdm package (apt-get > > purge xdm) and added the following l

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tech Geek writes: […] > However, I want to do a auto login into my fluxbox (instead of user > typing in username and password in xdm) and I still want the basic > login console on Serial Port 1. So I removed xdm package (apt-get > purge xdm) and added the following line to my /etc/rc.l

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
> suspicious that I am compelled to ask if you are really sure that is > the correlation?  Please double check. Yes, I double checked that. As soon as I revert back to installing xdm, the login console appears on Serial Port 1. > Are there any messaged logged to /var/log/syslog concerning failure

Re: /etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Tech Geek wrote: > I have uncommented the following line in the /etc/inittab file on > Debian Squeeze: > > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Seems reasonable. I do that on server systems too. > This works if my system starts up normally i.e. via xdm->fluxbox. Sure. > However, I wa

/etc/inittab not executed upon starting X with startx command

2011-08-15 Thread Tech Geek
I have uncommented the following line in the /etc/inittab file on Debian Squeeze: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Basically, I am trying to output a login console on Serial Port 1 also. This works if my system starts up normally i.e. via xdm->fluxbox. However, I want to do a auto lo