[plug] Odd runlevel 5

[Jim Householder]

Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 20:37, Jim Householder wrote:
> 
>>I recently installed MDK 10.1 from scratch, formatting all partitions
>>but 3 (mounted at /disks/hdb9, 11 & 12) which contained among other
>>things complete backups of /etc and /usr/local.  I thought that
>>perhaps I could get my Nvidia card working again so I put it in and
>>compiled the driver.  No luck.  Could not initialise kernel module.
> 
> 
>>Modprobe nvidia.
> 
> 
>>Now I get the nvidia splash screen followed by the KDE progress box
>>but no wallpaper and no icons etc.
> 
> 
> Sounds like you're running devfs and should be running udev, but it 
> normally only does that when you upgrade from an earlier version.
> 
> Another common symptom of this is that the first user login takes ages, 
> minutes maybe, but root and subsequent user logins are instant again.

I did have this problem a while back, but not now.
> 
> Try this if unsure:
> 
>     urpmi udev
>     chkconfig --add udev
>     chkconfig --del devfsd
> 
udev is already installed and started for 2, 3, and 5.
devfsd is not present.

Jim