Login Problem

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>Rick and gang,
> >>>
> >>>I  lost the origional email so I'm going to repeat myself here.
> >>>
> >>>I changed the resolution on my screen and now the graphical login 
> >>>screen is all waco -the characters are about 1/4 screen high.
> >>>
> >>>Rick suggested I do the following from a standard console
> >>>
> >>>"kill `pidof gdm`"
> >>>
> >>>"telinit 3" then "telinit 5"
> >>>
> >>>reboot
> >>>
> >>>I tried that and got an error on the "Kill" I did it with and 
> >>>with out the single quote "`" (the one next to the #1 key).  With 
> >>>out the single quote I got gdm not found.
> >>
> >>The "`" are called "graves" and yes, they're next to the 1 key.  Those
> >>cause the shell to run the command enclosed in the graves and return the
> >>data spit to stdout to the rest of the command.  So
> >>
> >>	kill `pidof gdm`
> >>
> >>first causes the shell to run "pidof gdm" (which displays the process ID
> >>of the "gdm" program).  The PID is passed to "kill" to shut down gdm.
> >>Since the /etc/inittab has a "respawn" on gdm, it will restart.
> >>
> >>
> >>>I did the other commands anyway but it did not fix the 
> >>>login screen.  The desktop screen is fine.
> >>
> >>Weird.  Did you check the logs in /var/log/gdm?
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > OK I re-tried it with the graves and got the following message, 
> > as root, 
> > 
> > kill: usage: kill .......
> > 
> > the file /var/log/gdm/:0.log ends with these lines
> > 
> > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >               vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >               vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >               vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> > GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
> >               vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> > (END)
> > 
> > If, as root, I do a "pidof gdm" I get nothing back.  If I do it 
> > as a user or su I get command not found.
> 
> The "pidof" binary is /sbin/pidof.  A normal user or root via "su" won't
> find it as it's not in their path.  An "su -" WILL find it.
> 
> Try "gdm-binary" instead of gdm.  I think the name changed.
> 
> > For once I am able to be at my machine during the day - I'm 
> > building a brick wall in my yard so I'll be in and out.
> 
> "All in all you're just another brick in the wall" -- Pink Floyd
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Well this brick in still in the wall - the gdm-binary did 
something but after all three steps the login is still giving me 
1/4 screen characters.

Is there a file I can edit direct that could fix it?

Thanks again,

Brad