Björn Persson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > > I can't imagine why startx would work immediately after logging > > in in text mode, without touching anything that affects the configuration > > of X; and it seems a strange, roundabout approach. But I'm willing to try > > it, if I understand aright what it is I'm to try. > > I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I boot > into runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into runlevel 3, log > in as root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just fine. This thread is a bit old but I thought I should mention what I've discovered: Booting into runlevel 5 works if I disable RHGB (by removing "rhgb" from the Linux command line). RHGB also doesn't run in runlevel 3, so that's why booting into runlevel 3 made a difference. It seems like X works only if X hasn't run before since the machine was booted. (RHGB uses its own instance of X.) I no longer have to run "init 5" manually. Of course I don't know how this will work for anyone else. Björn Persson -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines