Mike, > It sounds like you have runlevel 5 as your default; this problem has > been known to happen if xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) isn't > running at runlevel 5 - I looked at /etc/inittab, and runlevel 5 is the default. I thought that was the correct option if you want X to start automatically? Do I need to change it to 3, and then start X manually at login? id:5:initdefault > or if your /tmp or /home directory partitions > are full. There's lots of space left in those partitions. > (I'm assuming that you're able to login ok at runlevel 3) Yes, no problem logging into runlevel 3. > Thanks, > Mike >