No longer any xwindows on RedHat 7.3

[Andrew Mathews]

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Carruth, Matt wrote:
| I've been running Redhat 7.3 on an old Gateway e-3000 system for months and
| never had any problem.
| Last week, I rebooted and the xwindows system did not come up.
| During the reboot, the "loader" opens and I see a nice display showing all
| listed operating systems (only RH 7.3 in this case) and then the boot
| continues.  Everything looks OK, but there is no xwindows display: only
| command line.
| Any ideas on what happened or what I should do now?
| Regards,
| Matt Carruth
| Information Technology Operations (ITOps)
| E-mail: m-carruth at ti.com <mailto:m-carruth at ti.com>
| Phone: 214-567-8522

You should be seeing something like "init: gui respawning too rapidly, sleeping
for 5 minutes". If not, check /etc/inittab and make sure it's still set for run
level 5, not 3. Such as: id:5:initdefault:
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Andrew Mathews
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