[NBLUG/talk] Udev and GDM Greeter

[Stephen Cilley]

It's deffinately not the BIOS, it wasn't acting this
way with the last install and I was using the exact
same BIOS settings.  Any other thoughts?
Thank you,
Stephen

--- Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Stephen
> Cilley wrote:
> > I just did a debian install last night and I've
> got
> > two problems, one seems like a bug, the other is
> just
> > my inability to formulate proper google searches.
> > So I did the install on the first and only ide hdd
> in
> > the computer.  Other than that drive I have 2 dvd
> > drives, and two SATA drives (and a floppy.)  I
> reboot
> > and it comes up with some very strange looking
> error
> > about not being able to get at the root partition.
>  I
> > look at the fstab and it looks like the installer
> has
> > mistakenly referred to all of the partitions on
> the
> > ide drive by /dev/hde instead of /dev/hda and the
> grub
> > and mtab have the same thing.  So I changed it and
> it
> > booted alright, and then I reboot again and it
> says
> > the same thing, only this time it's looking at hda
> and
> > it's actually at hde.  I reboot about 10 more
> times
> > just to test, and it is completely randomly
> > fluctuating between the two.  Has udev gone crazy?
> 
> As much as a pain in the ass udev is, I don't think
> udev is causing this
> problem.  Perhaps your computer's BIOS is
> initializing devices in an
> inconsistent order?  See what kind of options your
> BIOS has for specifying
> this.
> 
> > Second, and I realize this may be a bit of a
> stupid
> > question, but how do I escape the gdm greeter?  It
> > installed it automatically during the debian
> install
> > and now I can't get out of X (every time I kill
> it, it
> > just resurrects itself.)
> 
> /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> or
> apt-get remove gdm
> 
> -t
> 
> 
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