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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