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mi_unixbird
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 Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:51 am Post subject: xdm starts at boot but is not in any of the runlevels |
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Basically, at boot, on vt7 some xdm login screen is shown, after which I press ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to vt1 in text mode, log in there, and kill it and otherwise have no real problems but it's annoying xdm is not in any of the runlevels and I'm not sure where to remove this behaviour
Output of rc-update show:
| Code: | binfmt | boot
bootmisc | boot
bumblebee | default
cronie | default
dbus | default
devfs | sysinit
dhcpcd | default
dhcpd | default
dmesg | sysinit
fsck | boot
hostname | boot
hwclock | boot
keymaps | boot
killprocs | shutdown
kmod-static-nodes | sysinit
local | default
localmount | boot
loopback | boot
modules | boot
mount-ro | shutdown
mtab | boot
netmount | default
procfs | boot
root | boot
savecache | shutdown
sshd | default
swap | boot
swapfiles | boot
sysctl | boot
sysfs | sysinit
syslog-ng | default
termencoding | boot
tmpfiles.dev | sysinit
tmpfiles.setup | boot
udev | sysinit
urandom | boot
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Apheus
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Openrc has a dependency system. Xdm is possibly started by some other service. Search for "use xdm" or "need xdm" in /etc/init.d:
| Code: | | grep -r "need xdm" /etc/init.d |
On the list of your services in default run level, I suspect bumblebee. |
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mi_unixbird
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Apheus wrote: | Openrc has a dependency system. Xdm is possibly started by some other service. Search for "use xdm" or "need xdm" in /etc/init.d:
| Code: | | grep -r "need xdm" /etc/init.d |
On the list of your services in default run level, I suspect bumblebee. |
Yeah:
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—— — grep -r "need xdm" /etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/vgl: need xdm
/etc/init.d/bumblebee: need xdm vgl
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So is there some way to get rid of this, surely starting the bumblee daemon does not require xdm or any display manager to run? Would just remerging with USE="-xdm" do it? |
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Apheus
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| Do you really need bumblebee in console-only? Bumblebee does not have an xdm use-flag, so reemerging bumblebee is not going to change anything. Editing the start script and removing "need xdm" can break things, depending on bumblebee internals. Most likely, there is a reason it is in there. The most stable course of action would be to remove bumblebee from "default" runlevel and see if there is any missing functionality. If you start xdm manually, be sure to start bumblebee before. |
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mi_unixbird
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| I suppose I could just add it to the ~/.xinitrc I guess yeah. |
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mi_unixbird
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well, this seems pretty weird, what happens is that indeed bumblebeed refuses to start without xdm, furthermore, it refuses to start when you first did startx having started another x server before xdm, complaining about no xauth file.
So if you don't start bumblebeed at boot you have to start it from the console before startx, at which point it starts xdm and gives you that some graphical login screen. I tried to log into it for fun, it says the login was successfull and then follows up with the same login screen.
Any way of configuring xdm that it doesn't give me that weird login screen at startup? |
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Apheus
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know, but if you don't care if the login screen is active on terminal 7, and just want to be put back on terminal 1 automatically, you could hack a command
somewhere into the xdm startup scripts. "chvt" is from sys-apps/kbd. Really crude hack... |
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