Login Problem

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Apr 28 16:52:28 UTC 2004


brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> Rick and gang,
> 
> I  lost the origional email so I'm going to repeat myself here.
> 
> I changed the resolution on my screen and now the graphical login 
> screen is all waco -the characters are about 1/4 screen high.
> 
> Rick suggested I do the following from a standard console
> 
> "kill `pidof gdm`"
> 
> "telinit 3" then "telinit 5"
> 
> reboot
> 
> I tried that and got an error on the "Kill" I did it with and 
> with out the single quote "`" (the one next to the #1 key).  With 
> out the single quote I got gdm not found.

The "`" are called "graves" and yes, they're next to the 1 key.  Those
cause the shell to run the command enclosed in the graves and return the
data spit to stdout to the rest of the command.  So

	kill `pidof gdm`

first causes the shell to run "pidof gdm" (which displays the process ID
of the "gdm" program).  The PID is passed to "kill" to shut down gdm.
Since the /etc/inittab has a "respawn" on gdm, it will restart.

> I did the other commands anyway but it did not fix the 
> login screen.  The desktop screen is fine.

Weird.  Did you check the logs in /var/log/gdm?
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