Login Problems

[TNSL]

Hi all

Mandrake 10

Ok i am new to linux i have had it installed since sunday.
It was set up to log in to the user account automatically, but as of today i get a black screen with a bit of writing at the top asking me to login,
so i type the user name, then it asks for the password which i give it, then it just sits there, i was trying lots of commands that did not work, then some how i thought about typing "KDE" in to it and it then went along and booted to the desktop,
all is fine there, but when i click the star button in the bottom left corner, then i click log off and a box apears with two buttons "Logoff" & "Cancel"

When login off there used to be 3 options

Logoff
Restart System
Shutdown

when i click log off, now it goes back to the black screen asking me to log in, so i turn the system off, when i start it again it wants to check the file system as it was not closed down cleanly.


I am guessing that the black screen is theTerminal program.

How can i get it back to the way it was?

Thanks for any help

Tony

[UgoDeschamps]

If it doenst give you an error after you logued in, the command to start KDE, is

startx

[lakerdonald]

I'd say that your runlevel has been changed from 5 to 3 somehow. Can you post your /etc/inittab here?

[TNSL]

Hi

Here in my /etc/inittab

#
# 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 Mandrakelinux 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

[dylunio]

In the command line edit your /etc/inittab with pico and change the

id:3:initdefault:

to id:5:initdefault:

To edit with pico, login as root in the command line and then

pico /etc/inittab

then edit the file and save it.

You can also do this though KDE/Gnome as root with Kate or simmilar;

dylunio

[lakerdonald]

Yes, my suspicions were true. Your default runlevel has been changed to 3, which is text-only. You want runlevel five. Try man inittab for some help on changing the default.

[TNSL]

Thank you

That seems to of worked
but what would make it change just like that?
I did set up a network to my xp system the other day, but i have shut the system down and started it since then and it was fine.

Again thanks very much

Tony

[lakerdonald]

That's very odd that something like that happened, but I've heard of stranger things. Glad you got it to work though.