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Synopsis: |
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This host is running kdm. |
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul |
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>> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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[ snip snip ] |
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>> > Hi, |
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>> > |
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>> > You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it |
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>> > easier to determine how to stop it. Maybe you don't use XDM at all, in |
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>> > which case the above suggestion wouldn't have any relevance to your |
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>> > situation. |
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>> I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using |
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>> KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've |
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>> forgotten all the details. But there's no sign of *dm in /etc/init.d, |
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>> other than xdm, which acts pretty normal outside of the fact that it |
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>> fails. It goes through motions, says some things work by putting [OK] |
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>> in the right margin, and all that. |
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>> If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. |
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>> ++ kevin |
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> Look at your ps axf. If it is running via xdm you will see something like: |
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> 6403 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/xdm |
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> 6417 tty7 Ss+ 28:54 \_ /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp -br |
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> vt7 -auth /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-bvk4xxF |
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What I get is not much, but it appears I'm still running kdm and it's |
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a child of init. |
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kevin@treat ~ $ ps axf | grep dm |
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725 pts/6 S+ 0:00 \_ grep --colour=auto dm |
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15372 ? Ss 0:00 kdm |
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kevin@treat ~ $ |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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