On March 23, 2003 01:03 pm, Glenn English wrote: > Well, many thanks to those who helped me get X running on my Dell > Latitude Laptop. > > Now I need help getting it to stop. > > I'm using wmaker, and when the system boots, it comes up with an X > login. I don't want it to do that, and when I hit ctl-alt-bs, I get > the Creeping White Screen Of Death (CWSOD) and I have to reboot. > After login, selecting WindowManager Exit also gets the CWSOD. So > does "shutdown -r now." I can't say for sure about ctl-alt-del. I > can kill the wmaker process and get out of X. > > All this happens only some of the time. It takes so long to reboot > that I haven't been able to find clearly repeatable steps. It seems > like things were OK at first, then quit working - but there have > been times when quit, quits. Logging in as root does the same > thing. > > My XF86Config-4 is a trial-and-error merge of that produced by the > Debian and the Red Hat installers. > > I've never seen the CWSOD anywhere but here on Debian. Anybody know > what causes that? Why does the system come up with an X login? I > never (Intentionally) asked it to.
Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does this. You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a graphical login. Why?? At the very least it should ask you when installing if you want to start up into X. A friend of mine recently installed debian and whenever he rebooted it started x and then hung his machine. He doesn't have enough experience to know how to circumvent this and therefore had to do a complete reinstall. I would think that especially debian would adopt a policy of having automatic boot to X disabled by default. Every other distro will at least ask you. Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
