On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:42 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > On 1/17/06, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I tried creating a new user account, and doing a login on a terminal windown. When I started 'startx' I received the same errors. > > > > I had a third machine develop the same symptoms of not displaying a gui login screen. I am able to see the gui boot up process but when each system tries to switch to the gui login the display presents itself with some screwy lines. > > > > This all looks like the resolution has changed, but I have not changed any of the resolutions. > > > > Is there a way to change the resolution from a terminal window. I would like to try to change the resolution to the same as the default for the boot up gui process. > > > > Sure would appreciate anyone's help. > > > Try this procedure: > > Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root > > vi /etc/inittab and set initdefault to runlevel 3. Save the file and reboot. > > On the console log in as root and type startx -- for now just ignore > all the errors. Does the resulting TUI dialogs ask you if you want to > generate a new xorg.conf file? > > If so, say yes and see if that does not resolve the issue. This > procedure worked for me this past Sunday. If it does resolve it -- > just edit the /etc/inittab file to start X in runlevel 5 and reboot. > > HTH/Bill > -- > WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting > Bill, I can boot to run level 3 without any problem by appending "3" to the boot line, when I run startx from the root account I get an error telling me that it cannot find the fonts. In checking xfs I find that it is not running at all, and will not activate from the command line. The more I have looked at this the more I believe it is related to one of the more recent updates. When I look at the logs of these systems it seems that the problem has occurred after flex.i386 0:2.5.4a-35.fc4 was updated. I have put in a bug report, but have not heard back from anyone. My guess is that this is going to cause a lot of problems as users update their systems. Greg
