No longer any xwindows on RedHat 7.3
Kurt Wall
kwall
Mon May 17 11:51:38 PDT 2004
Quoth Carruth, Matt:
> 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.
What's changed?
> 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.
What does the line that includes "initdefault" in /etc/inittab read?
Any obvious clues in /var/log/XFree86*log?
Kurt
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