Re: System trashed
In a message dated 3/12/99 11:25:06 AM Central Standard Time,
95rmwh@eng.cam.ac.uk writes:
> Ok, I just upgraded to slink, and thought everything was ok, but that was
> before I rebooted. My system rebooted, and started xdm (or whatever),
> which I don't want, and the keyboard seemed to be locked up. I could move
> the mouse, but couldn't attempt to log in, or even switch to another
> virtual terminal. How can I stop this from happening? Is this a bug,
> 'cos I didn't ask for xdm to be started, and, wherever I was given the
> choice, I chose to keep my own startup scripts, so surely xdm's bullied
> its way into starting.
>
I can say this much - with slink, if you download the xdm package, it
automatically starts. If you don't want xdm to start, you need to remove the
xdm package.
-Jay
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