Graphical boot gone awry

Andrew Robinson awrobinson at cox.net
Thu Jul 22 01:38:33 UTC 2004


Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 07:19, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> 
>>My graphical boot (rhgb) has somehow gone awry. Instead of either the
>>image of the workstation or the window showing the boot messages, all I
>>get is a black screen with the X-Windows "X" cursor in the center. It's
>>like the graphical boot program has lost a configuration file and it
>>doen't know what to display. My attempts to troubleshoot the problem
>>have run into a sort of brick wall. There does not seem to be much
>>information on rhgb available. Can someone offer a suggestion as to what
>>I might have done or how I might find out what I've done?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Andrew Robinson
> 
> 
> There are a couple of debug options to rhgb (rhgb --help).
> 
> You could try adding one or both of these options to the rhgb startup in
> rc.sysinit.
> 
> Bob...

Ah, so that's where rhgb gets started. I'll check it out from there. Thanks!

Andrew






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