X doesn't start when booting in run level 5

Christopher J. Bottaro cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu
Wed Mar 9 18:44:23 UTC 2005


Jim Cornette wrote:

> Christopher J. Bottaro 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?
>> 
>> Thanks for the help.
>> 
> 
> There are many possibilities. I believe my computer does the same thing
> with runlevel 5. I like runlevel 3 better anyway.
> 
> Possibility 1:
> rhgb could need upgrading. Are you running the latest version for fc3?
> The released version was buggy, but a working copy could not be included
> on the cds released. The developer announced the program ws fixed and
> explained the reason for the buggy released version.

Heh, doing a complete "yum update" and installing the latest nvidia drivers
for the newest kernel solved (err, eliminated) the problem.

> Possibility 4:
> What was described earlier about runlevel 5 and runlevel 3 differences
> might apply. It might be the differences in the way X initializes for
> the runlevels.

Yeah, I was about to try the udev suggestion, but I guess I don't have to
now.

Thank you everyone for the help and suggestions.  This list is wonderful.




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