Graphical boot gone awry

[Guy Fraser]

Sachin Rase wrote:

>Hi there ,
>
>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:19:42 -0500, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson at cox.net> wrote:
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>>My graphical boot (rhgb) has somehow gone awry. Instead of either the
>>image of the workstation or the window showing the boot messages, all I
>>get is a black screen with the X-Windows "X" cursor in the center. It's
>>like the graphical boot program has lost a configuration file and it
>>doen't know what to display. My attempts to troubleshoot the problem
>>have run into a sort of brick wall. There does not seem to be much
>>information on rhgb available. Can someone offer a suggestion as to what
>>I might have done or how I might find out what I've done?
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>>
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Look in the file :
/etc/inittab

If the line beginning with "x" ends with :
/etc/X11/prefdm

Then look in that file to see what configuration files are used to determine
what is supposed to start.

The problem may be a file has had its privileges changed and is no longer
readable, or a program name has changed during an "upgrade".

>Me too had same problem when  with FC1 when i tried to upgarde the gnome 
>from 2.4 to 2.6 from tgz files .
>In my case i have damange the Display mangeer setting GDM so i was not
>geting regular
>rhgb prg output .
>so i had tried my luck as i have alter the line in inittab as 
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>"x:5:respawn:kill -9 39;kdm " 
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Yikes!
That is quite the presumption.

>as my rhgb was havin process id of 39 at boot sequcence 
>and i have used kdm instead of gdm as i was having problem with GDM 
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>so morle of  story  is check you DM diskplay manager setting (KDM, GDM )
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The proper way to switch your GUI, is to edit :

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

change it to :
---cut---
DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE
---end---

Good luck.