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Hi all, I need to launch X-Windows at runlevel 4 and 5. CentOS only start up x-windows at runlevel by default. I have modified /etc/inittab to accomplish this: x:4:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon But this returns errors every time that start and stop system ... Which is the correct form to launch x-windows under centos at different runlevels?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to notice that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 was exactly like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including RH9. it reads like this (added line numbers for reference): 14 # Run preferred X display manager 15 preferred= 16 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop 18 if [ "$DISPLAYMANAG...

...user that runs > "startx" Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm a professional sysadmin, and that I've been here for years. It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an /etc/sysconfig/desktop, added a line in /etc/X11/prefdm to include xfce, copying one of the other lines, and rebooted. It came in in runlevel 5, no login. In other words, what I'd do with any other display manager. mark > > Instead, you should be booting the graphical target (edit /etc/inittab to > change the default on C6; use "...

On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: >> 100% with Digimer here. <snip> > >> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the >> project, testing, helping out community. > > Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes > untouched entering

...ine. > > The purpose of the runlevel switch was to restart gdm. Is there a better > way? Since CentOS 6 uses Upstart as its init system, and GDM is run from an Upstart service (and not a SysV init script), you can use the upstart tools to restart GDM. It's actually run from the 'prefdm' service (because it could also run kdm or xdm). # initctl restart prefdm prefdm start/running, process 29141 -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

...startx" > > Excuse me, but there's no need for insults. You know perfectly well that I'm > a professional sysadmin, and that I've been here for years. > > It's a Netbook. I yum groupinstalled xfce, created an > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, added a line in /etc/X11/prefdm to include xfce, > copying one of the other lines, and rebooted. It came in in runlevel 5, no > login. > > In other words, what I'd do with any other display manager. I believe that's the mistake you made, you told prefdm to start xfce instead of a display manager, which is wh...

.../desktop and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. Any other suggestions? mw ======================== Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it: DESKTOP=KDM I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm Sent from my phoneMike Watson <mikew at crucis.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead of the default Gnome. However, wh...

Hi, folks, So I installed xfce on my Netbook. While I was in Chicago, I worked out how to tell it to bring it up. It came up. As root. With no obvious way to tell it to show a login screen first. Did I miss something? mark

Does anybody know how to restart X in centos 5.3? /etc/init.d/gdm | xdm seems to be missing. thanks, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090813/671fde5f/attachment-0003.html>

...loaded: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot clearly this is not normal and how to fix it ? please help! thank you. -- http://blog.rizahnst.org

For a few days I can't boot a server in graphical mode. The screen goes black and a have a CUI login. I can login a user and at this point 'startx' get the graphical interface up in /etc/inittab/ x: 5:respawn: /etc.X11/prefdm -nodaemon and xdmcp is alivre On this server we have 12 stations drived by LTSP as a terminal server. We can boot the stations to a point where the X graphical interface doesn't come up and the terminal stays with a grey screen with a big X in the center. Do somebody can drive me to a solutio...

Hi, How can I put an additional window manager in the login screen? I've installed fluxbox and I'd like to be able to log in with it. Thanks much in advance. Kind regards, Nancy Nancy Rudins nrudins at ncsa.uiuc.edu http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~nrudins/ Take a sad song and make it better. (lennon/mccartney)

...thod in this link (albeit it is for 5.x) <http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-sysconfig-desktop.html> In 6.2 the file "/etc/sysconfig/desktop" does *not* exist, so I created it with the two variables - still no joy. Finally, I hacked the script "/etc/X11/prefdm" and changed the order of the two lines in the Fallback to put kdm before gdm as shown below. <code> .... snip .... [ -n "$preferred" ] && exec $preferred "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null # Fallbacks, in order # order of GDM/KDM lines, changed by...

...tty (/dev/tty5) start/running, process 2574 tty (/dev/tty4) start/running, process 2571 plymouth-shutdown stop/waiting control-alt-delete stop/waiting debug stop/waiting rcS-emergency stop/waiting kexec-disable stop/waiting pdoneVendorBroker stop/waiting quit-plymouth stop/waiting rcS stop/waiting prefdm stop/waiting repToolBroker stop/waiting init-system-dbus stop/waiting emailBroker stop/waiting splash-manager stop/waiting cmeBroker stop/waiting start-ttys stop/waiting messageBroker stop/waiting shareEventHandler stop/waiting edetailBroker stop/waiting pdoneLoginProctor stop/waiting rcS-sulogin s...

OK, I know what I'm doing is "officially unsupported", but perhaps someone has some suggestions... I have a CentOS 5.6 system running as a virtual machine using VMware player. I cloned the system, booted the clone to make sure everything worked after cloning, it did. I then booted off a CentOS 6 ISO and did an upgrade (I know, unsupported!). I've got the system to the

...ustomize/firstboot.ml index f1e5807..52dfbbe 100644 --- a/customize/firstboot.ml +++ b/customize/firstboot.ml @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ fi let firstboot_service = sprintf "\ [Unit] -Description=virt-sysprep firstboot service +Description=libguestfs firstboot service After=network.target Before=prefdm.service @@ -122,10 +122,27 @@ WantedBy=default.target *) let unitdir = "/usr/lib/systemd/system" in g#mkdir_p unitdir; - let unitfile = sprintf "%s/firstboot.service" unitdir in + let unitfile = sprintf "%s/guestfs-firstboot.service" unitdir in...

Hello, We generally use CentOS for some servers, and so do not use a GUI interface. However, I have recently installed CentOS 6.3 onto a PC with KDE. I am familiar with KDE as I use it with Fedora for my work PC. The problem is that we would like to configure the login screen, so that it does not show the user list, that it does not allow the shutdown or reboot commands (from the login screen),

On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole > <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>: >> On 2015-04-08, David Both >> <dboth at millennium-technology.com> >> wrote: >>> The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen >>> itself or the desktop simply press

Hi all, I installed a paravirt CentOS 5.4 domU on a CentOS 5.4 dom0 environment. I compiled the domU kernel with framebuff console. But I couldn’t using VNC to connect to the domU console. The kernel boot message could print on the vnc console. But after the boot process, the console appears on the text console in dom0 again. The configfile is as follows: vfb = [

...estfs: trace: is_dir = 1 libguestfs: trace: mkdir_p "/usr/lib/systemd/system" libguestfs: trace: mkdir_p = 0 libguestfs: trace: write "/usr/lib/systemd/system/guestfs-firstboot.service" "[Unit]\x0aDescription=libguestfs firstboot service\x0aAfter=network.target\x0aBefore=prefdm.service\x0a\x0a[Service]\x0aType=oneshot\x0aExecStart=/usr/lib/virt-sysprep/firstboot.sh start\x0aRemainAfterExit=yes\x0aStandardOutput=journal+console\x0aStandardError=inherit\x0a\x0a[Install]\x0aWanted"<truncated, original size 274 bytes> libguestfs: trace: internal_write "/usr/l...