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Meelis Mihhailov wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi all </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">My server has a strange problem. At
the moment client login takes a long time and same when they log out
but when they are finlly logged in everything works fine. Programs open
an run as usual.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Looking at the messages log I get
this :</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">**********************************************************************************************************</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup
gdmlogin[30067]: Failed to connect to socket, not sleeping</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup
gdmlogin[30067]: Trying failed command again. Try 5 of 5.<br>
Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup gdmlogin[30067]: Failed to connect to
socket, not sleeping<br>
Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup gdmlogin[30067]: Command failed 5
times, aborting.<br>
Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup gdmlogin[30067]: Could not access
configuration key
<greeter/Exclude=bin,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,gdm,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap><br>
Jan 4 08:52:37 terminalbackup gdmlogin[30067]: Using compiled in value
<bin,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,gdm,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap>
for
<greeter/Exclude=bin,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,gdm,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap><br>
**********************************************************************************************************</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">and there is a lot more of that. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I suspect that it has something to
do with gdm bug and so I updated the gdm to the latest releace that is
out for FC5. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This did not solve my problem. Login
window has it's default login stuff. Not k12 logo but GNOME logo. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">So I googled a lot and cryed
and finally found some info that I can change my login manager to
something else but still manage to use GNOME as my desktop. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I would like to try this with
my clients but where can I find the config where it's written what is
my default login manager and where can I change the values so that
clients use the following method :</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">DESKTOP = GNOME</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">LOGIN MANAGER = KDE (for
example)</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Any ideas ? :)</font></font></div>
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I believe that the file "/etc/X11/prefdm" is what you want to tweak.
There's a part in that file that says the following:<br>
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# Run preferred X display manager<br>
preferred=<br>
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then<br>
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop<br>
if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then<br>
preferred=gdm<br>
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then<br>
preferred=kdm<br>
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then<br>
preferred=xdm<br>
fi<br>
fi <br>
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Now, in the part where it checks $DISPLAYMANAGER for GNOME, just tweak
that to kdm instead of gdm. Then, so that the new display manager
(kdm) takes effect, just do an init 3 followed by an init 5, and that
should do it.<br>
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--TP
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