[ILUG] pxelinux + Grey screen with large X cursor

[bobb]

Paul Kelly hath declared on Thursday the 29 day of April 2004  :-:
  
> I'm just getting a grey screen with a large X cursor on my workstation. 
> This indicates that the X server is running, but it has not been able to make
> contact with a display manager. 

> I have checked /etc/inittab for the a line like this: 
> x:5:respawn:/etc/x11/prefdm -nodaemon 
> There is no line like this but I am using Mandrake 9.1 and not Red Hat 

I'm not familar with Mandrake, it may start its display manager from
one of the init scripts in /etc/init.d/ check if there is anything there
and that its configured to start in your default runlevel...

On the other hand you could just add a like like the above to the inittab,
specify a specific DM if Mandrake doesn't use the prefdm thing....

    x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon 

Or something...

- bobb

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