X doesn't start when booting in run level 5

[Richard Hubbell]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:58:11 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro
<cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When my computer boots to run level 5, it hangs on starting X.  The screen
> just freezes up with red and green vertical lines and the computer stops
> responding to input.
> 
> The weird thing is that if I boot to run level 3 and manually type startx,
> then X starts up just fine.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?

Could it be a tear in the fabric of space? If not then maybe startx and the line
you have in /etc/inittab for level 5 are running different software.  Usually
run level  5 runs prefdm so that's where I'd start.  

Richard