[CentOS] How to login to a new session?

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:47 +0530, duffmckagan wrote:
> Sorry, but I wasn't able to Login to a new session even with this
> Procedure. don't understand whats wrong with it.
> 
> When i use the following command
> 
> ctrl+alt+F2
> xinit /usr/bin/startkde -:1

That's

	xinit /usr/bin/startkde -- :1

> I get error messages like
> >unable to open display
> >cannot connect to xserver and stuff like that.
> 
> Moreover, thought the following command would do.
> 
> ctrl+alt+f2
> xinit /usr/bin/kdm -:1
> >fatal server error
> >server is already active for display 0
> if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.x0-lock and start again.

Not 100% sure on this one, but don't think you can run more than 1 kdm.
I presume you're in runlevel 5 with a display manager already running
on :0.0

Phil