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From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
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Subject: Re: [Q] xdm on SLS 098 doesn't work, startx does! Why?
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Date: 2 Nov 92 14:25:57 GMT
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In article <1992Oct28.051339.7168@utstat.uucp>, rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) writes:
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> In article <coizi01.720209558@convex> coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann) writes:
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>>I have installed Linux on my 486 DX and ET4000 sucessfully. Just a
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>>few deltails won't fit in my SLS 098 distribution: X works well when
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>>started from "startx", it hangs, when started with xdm in rc. The
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>>startup screen appears, the login window comes up, but no keyboard
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>>input is possible, just bell rings when hitting any keys and I have
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>>to press CTRL ALT DEL!
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> Ok, I had problems with xdm under Xfree86, although it worked under
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> x11v1.1. First of all, it seems, that you have getty going. You have
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> to comment out all getty's on virtual consoles in /etc/inittab (all
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> the ones on tty#). Then in rc, on the last line put: echo starting
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> xdm ... /bin/doshell /dev/tty1 /usr/X386/bin/xdm
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That should work, but if it doesn't, you're stuck unable to get a
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virtual console. I run xdm from the inittab on /dev/tty1, and run a
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normal getty on /dev/tty2, so that if X fails I can always fall back
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to a console login. From my /etc/inittab...
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tty1:xterm:/bin/doshell /dev/tty1 /usr/X386/bin/xdm
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tty2:console:/bin/getty 19200 tty2
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ttys1:bbcb32:/etc/getty -m 19200,9600 ttys1
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Cheers,
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Stephen Tweedie.
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PS. Is this in the FAQ yet?
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
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Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
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Subject: Re: Bugs in LINUX tar (?)
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Date: 5 Nov 92 17:28:37 GMT
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In article <Bx8G3M.DBE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon) writes:
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> Last night I switched from minix FS to ext FS. Here are the steps I
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> went through:
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> * tarred my whole filesystem using gnu tar, split tarfile onto
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> floppies. * reformatted hard disk using mkefs. * reloaded software
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> from floppy using the tar on the 0.98 rootdisk.
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> Much to my chagrin, though, the tar on the root floppy didn't seem
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> to quite understand the tarfile format: it loaded the files up ok,
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> and got all the chmod bits right, but got most of the file
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> ownerships wrong! Needless to say, this took a long time to fix.
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> It may be important that I use UID's greater than 1000... although
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> I can't see why that would be a problem, it IS unusual.
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First of all, you should be using the -p (set permissions) option to
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tar; although if you say the mode bits are correct, you're probably
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doing this anyway.
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The problem with ownership is that when you boot from the root floppy,
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you are no longer using the passwd and group files from your tarred
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root partition. So, all those users and groups who should own the
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files you are restoring simply don't exist at the time of the restore.
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You should copy the original /etc/passwd and /etc/group files into
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/etc on the root floppy before extracting the tar archive.
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Cheers,
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Stephen Tweedie.
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---
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
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Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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