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DagonSphere
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 Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: [BUG/SOLVED] Slim to respawn on Ctrl-Alt-Backspace |
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I just installed Gentoo from the x86 install disk (2008.0) and a stage 3 tarball, and got everything configured using the handbook. No sweat. From there, I installed Xorg and got that working correctly. I can use startx and get to the generic TWM -- mouse and keyboard work just fine.
The next step is to install a login manager. I'd like to use Slim instead of GDM or KDM. I emerged and configured it without a problem, using this guide http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM
Slim logs me in to TWM, and everything works fine. When I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, it kills X as expected, and Slim does not respawn.
As a sidenote, I was able to get Slim to respawn in another distro (ArchLinux) by adding the following line to /etc/inittab.
| Code: | | x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null |
I tried to apply this concept to Gentoo. I removed xdm from the default runlevel, and modified /etc/inittab like the following:
| Code: | | x:3:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null |
That didn't work. After doing some digging, I tried to modify it another way.
| Code: | | x:3:respawn:/etc/init.d/xdm >& /dev/null |
That didn't work either. It seems that I cannot get Slim to start by using inittab. The only way I can get it to start in Gentoo is by adding it to the default run level using rc-update, which doesn't respawn when killed.
| Code: | | rc-update add xdm default |
I tried digging through the /etc/init.d/xdm file to see if I could add a -d to the line that execs slim (to run in daemon mode). I tried modified the *) section of the case statement of the setup_dm function. Didn't have any luck, and I gave up.
Is there a better way to do this, other than hacking the init scripts to pieces. 
EDIT: Interesting to note that, after a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, that ps does not report slim or xdm as running. Yet, when I issue an /etc/init.d/xdm start, it say's it has already been started. Hmmm. Wonder if it's just a leftover lockfile somewhere. Just thought I'd add this in case it meant someething to someone.
Thanks in advance!
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| A bit of a hack, but you could replace slim with a shell script that calls slim with the "-d" parameter, and then configure the script as your default DISPLAYMANGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm. |
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DagonSphere
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| yabba - Thanks, yeah that would work, too. Until an update, I would imagine. I'm a little tweaked that I can't get the inittab way working. It just doesn't make sense. I have to be missing something simple. |
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tarpman
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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slim has an option in the config file to enable daemon mode without the command line argument, but it doesn't seem to work. bug 261713 is relevant.
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DagonSphere
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| Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Doh! Guess I have to start checking bugzilla first 
I just always assume I'm doing something wrong.
Thanks all! |
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