FC2 upgrade-X problem

[Ralph Jones]

Thanks for the reply, Graeme. Your problem looks much like mine:failure of 
the X server to start when booting into runlevel 5. Specific symptoms:

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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