f10, gui login spawns multiple X sessions, fails

Adrian Joian adrian.joian at fedoraproject.ro
Sat Feb 7 21:11:40 UTC 2009


Hello,

First of all be sure that you have all the nice updates. Then from init
3 try to debug the xserver system-configure-display should do fine for
starters. Then try again Case 1.

Adrian
fedoraproject.ro

Carl Byington wrote:
> I have a F10 system that has never quite worked properly. Dell inspiron
> 530 desktop with builtin intel graphics, but we added an nvidia card,
> and get the same behavior.
>
> Case 1 fails: /etc/inittab set to run level 5. The initial login screen
> comes up. Login as a user, and the screen goes black. SSH into the box,
> and we see multiple copies of X running on many ttyN devices.
>
> Case 2 works: /etc/inittab set to run level 3. After booting, from a
> root ssh session from another machine, 'telinit 5'. The initial login
> screen comes up, and user mode logins work nicely.
>
> Any suggestions for debugging this?
>




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