This may be totally off base but what run level are you in? I am not familiar
with Suse but in redhat the inittab has runlevel 5 defined to start gdm (or xdm
with a little change). All that is needed to make sure xdm starts is to change
the runlevel in inittab.
If Suse doesn't have a runlevel for xdm I think it was relatively easy to add. In
redhat the inittab entry looks like this:
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
The prefdm is just a script to pick between gdm, kdm and xdm. You should
be able to replace prefdm with xdm (with correct path) in the above and it
should work just fine. There are no differences in the rc5.d entries and rc3.d
entries so nothing else is getting started differently.
Hope that helps.
Pete Borders
On 19 Jul 2001, at 10:26, Wilfried Kern wrote:
> Thanks Rainer,
>
> sorry if I made myself not clear enough. It's not a problem of starting VNC,
> but Xvnc. I mentioned, that I have exactly the problems of a gray screen
> described in Andre Moreira's article. His solution is, to start xdm at
> startup time. That's the point I cannot overcome.
>
> Just for clarification.
>
> I have a server without any console. So no local manual intervention is
> possible (after installation time). All administration has to be done via a
> remote (Windows) PC running VNC-client. Assuming the server boots again
> after a power fail Xvnc should be started via inetd on the request of the
> remote PC. Xvnc *is* running (ps -ax), but the VNCclient shows the mentioned
> gray screen. This is the point where a running xdm is required. All attempts
> to start xdm in a start-up script, e.g. /sbin/init.d/boot.local fail.
>
> I simply don't know what to try next.
>
> - Wilfried
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