Just changing to a terminal login fixed the problem because gdm does not need to run. The login is not graphical so... It only starts if graphical login is the option used in inittab. I then fixed the permissions problem and might test it by setting the login back to graphical in the inittab. Low priority btw. Sam. bradyh at bitstream.net wrote: >GDM is the Gnome Display Manager but a lot of people use it because it's a >pretty good one. If it's noticably slowing down your system you could probably >use more memory. > >I've never tried it but if you're on an rpm based distro you should be able to >remove it using: >rpm -e gdm > >Brady > >Quoting Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com>: > > > >>Story of my life with Linux. >> >>Does Linux (the system) turn gnome off when it starts KDE, for us KDE users? >> I think the answer is "no" because it needs it after a logout to >>prompt for login. >> So KDE users get the honor of using both KDE and gnome at the >>same time? >> >><sidebar> >>So because I made the mistake, missing the "last" dialog box that says >>something like "do you want to use a graphical login? with the default >>of "use a graphical login". I've been cursed with a graphical login. >> >>If you remember our brave (ignorant) Linux user is also trying to get >>rid of the graphical login. See the thread "Lost". In the middle I put >>something about changing from graphical to terminal login. >> >>So I change the "inittab" file so it uses a "3" for multiuser login >>instead of a "5" for X11 and restart the machine. >> (Thanks to all for the information) >> >>Now this does not solve the original problem, it did stop the message >>coming up every 2 -5 minutes. Even without X windows running the message >>would display. Did I say X windows would start KDE without any >>problem? Well it does, but the message would pop up as above until I >>change "inittab". >>OH did I say X windows is running about 20% faster now? OH I didn't, >>well it is running about 20% faster then when I had the graphical >>login. Best guess; 2 windows managers were running all the time. >> >>Did I say OO Writer starts then it did before the change to a terminal >>login. Well it starts in 1 minute 25 seconds instead of 1 minute 55 >>seconds. Yes, I timed it when I first installed it. >></sidebar> >> >>Back to the original problem... >> >>So I set the permissions using the file manager but now the error is (it >>was before changeling to terminal login) >> >>"Server Authorization directory (Daemon/ServAuthdir) is set to /var/gdm >>but has the wrong permissions, it should have permissions of 0750. >>Please correct the permissions or the gdm configuration >>/etc/X11/gem/gdm.conf and restart gdm" >> >>For the life of me I can't remember what the "human" values of 0750 >>are. And I can't remember the command to set permissions. The >>permissions should be corrected just in case I want to torcher myself >>with a graphical login in some far off time. >> >>Sam. >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list