[Sussex] login/logout/reboot/shutdown question (Gentoo)?

[Stephen Williams]

John,

Have you got the necessary rc.conf stuff set?


Here's the relevant bit of mine:

# What display manager do you use ?  [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

-----%<-----

# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps

XSESSION="kde-3.3.1"

You may have to do:

rc-update add {xdm/kdm/gdm/???} default

as well, but Geoff is the ultimate slug Gentoo authority, he might know
better.

Steve Williams.



On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:14, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Normally, I click the start menu, select shutdown, then restart computer
> from the following dialogue box. The system then reboots back into grub
> offering Windows or Gentoo.
> 
> Then if I select Gentoo, it would reboot into the distro stopping at the
> user or root dialogue offering.
> 
> Now I appreciate that I probably haven't got things configured correctly
> (well I have, to the limit of my understanding), because at the moment,
> If I select Gentoo from grub, It goes through the booting up with the
> startup dialogue zooming up the screen, and even though I'm pretty sure
> that I've set the default level to 5 (well at least I think I have), It
> usually stops at an init 3 login. If I then hit enter, as expected, it
> won't go any further. If I type in either user or root, it usually
> starts the GUI login.
> 
> It's similar in reverse, inthat I select logout from the start menu and
> it just closes to an init 3 logged in level. To shut down properly, I
> have to SU to root and then "reboot" and it'll then close down properly
> and restart offering the grub OS menu.
> 
> What do I need to look into to sort this out ???
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.