Login screen dissapeared

[juandiegouu]

Hey there all
I'm having an issue with Mandriva 2009 Kde4, whichs consists in the fact that I have no login screen and I have to log in and shutdown my laptop from a shell. I also have to hit 'startx' everytime I turn my computer on in order to get Mandriva started. All this came up right after I had to install an nVidia beta driver from drakx11 for a GeForce 8200M G, ever since then I've been facing this issue which is more important considering MDV 2009 ain't have a shutdown button on its desktop so I've been just using shutdown command in the shell for some time now, which i don't thinks is very safe.
ANy help will be apreciated
Juan

[smolloy]

Hi, and welcome to the forums

Can you post the output of the following,

cat /etc/inittab

[juandiegouu]

Hey thanks for the welcome
here is the output you request
cheers

#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
# Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandriva Linux are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf:owerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345owerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Single user mode
~~:S:wait:/bin/sh

[smolloy]

You see that line near the top that says

id:3:initdefault:

Change it to

id:5:initdefault:

i.e. change the 3 to a 5.

Then reboot -- it should go straight to a graphical login.

[juandiegouu]

Ok I went to that file in Dolphin and tried to change what you told me but it said I had no permission to do so, may be it must be as root but I don't know how to do it from a terminal.

[smolloy]

Sorry.

Do this from a terminal

su -
<type your root password here>
nano /etc/inittab

After editing and saving your file, type "exit" to go back to being a normal user, and then reboot your machine.

If "nano" isn't found, try pico, or joe, or emacs, instead.

[juandiegouu]

sorry but none of those was found by yakuake, i tried replacing nano for kwriter (just to try) and it opens kwriter showing an error it wasnt posible to read the file as i might had no permmission tor read the file.
Also, to save the file from a terminal is ctrl+o, right?

[smolloy]

Did you do it as root? (i.e. did you type "su -" as I instructed?)

[juandiegouu]

Yes. I did, here is the complete output

juan@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# nano /etc/initab
-bash: nano: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# pico /etc/initab
-bash: pico: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# joe /etc/initab
-bash: joe: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# jo /etc/initab
-bash: jo: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# emacs /etc/initab
-bash: emacs: command not found
[root@localhost ~]# kwrite /etc/initab
Error: "/root/.kde4/tmp-localhost" points to "/tmp/kde-root" instead of "/root/tmp/kde-root".
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(5123) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(5123) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDGstandard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(5123) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/mandriva-rfbdrake.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(5123) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/codeina.desktop" is not compliant withXDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(5123) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/kde4/Kontact.desktop" is not compliantwith XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(5123)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::collectInheritedServices: parent mimetype not found: "text/xml"
kbuildsycoca4(5123)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::collectInheritedServices: parent mimetype not found: "text/xml"
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/knotify4
kwrite(5103): Couldn't start knotify from knotify4.desktop: "KDEInit no pudo lanzar «/usr/bin/knotify4»."
QThreadStorage: Thread 0x8d76388 exited after QThreadStorage 2147483645 destroyed
[root@localhost ~]# kwrite /etc/initab
QThreadStorage: Thread 0x8c73388 exited after QThreadStorage 2147483645 destroyed

[smolloy]

Wow!

Try this (as a regular user, not root),

sudo kwrite /etc/inittab

You'll be asked for a password -- sometimes the root password, and sometimes your own, but the erquest should make it clear.

By the way, it's not "jo", it's "joe".