When I try to boot the system into runlevel 5 (i.e. inittab contains id:5:initdefault), the X server goes into a repetitive cycle of starting and failing.
When I boot into runlevel 3 (id:3:initdefault), and then try to go to runlevel 5 (i.e. init 5), the same thing happens.
When I boot into runlevel 3 and then command startx, the X server and Gnome come right up.
When the X server tries to start up on a reboot, it fails to create the xorg.conf file. Just on a hunch, I tried copying the old XF86Config file into xorg.conf, but that didn't change anything.
rj
At 09:42 PM 8/1/2004, you wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 02:55, Ralph Jones wrote:
> Nope, that's not it...I tried that and got "rhgb is installed and is the
> latest version." It was a lead I should have thought of, though, because a
> principal difference between booting into runlevels 3 and 5 is that in
> level 5 the X server has to start before the login. Thanks anyway...
>
> rj
>
> At 09:38 AM 8/1/2004, you wrote:
> >Ralph Jones wrote:
> >
> >>OK, I tried that, but no help...I still can't get X up except by running
> >>startx from runlevel 3.
> >>
> >>rj
> >
> >Just a wild guess since RHL8 did not have rhgb included. Try yum install
> >rhgb and see if this will pull in whatever programs were missing that
> >related to runlevel 5. Then you can add the redhat graphical bootloader to
> >your grub.conf entries also.
> >
> >I boot runlevel 3 as a preference. At least this works for you.
> >
> >Jim
Hello Ralph, I've come in a bit late on this so I don't really know what your problem is. However, I did a RH8 to FC2 upgrade and had a not too dissimilar problem with X. It wouldn't start at all. My problem was the upgrade didn't create an xorg.conf file to replace the XFree86-4 config file for X. Your starting runlevel is in the /etc/inittab file, the line that reads: 'id:5:initdefault:'. Let's know what problem you are having and I will see if I can help you.
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