text login

[Terry Polzin]

Yeah, sounds like the gettys aren't running to me either.

ps -ef | grep getty to see if they are running

On Thursday July 29 2004 13:02, Rafiq_Maniar at Dell.com wrote:
> In /etc/inittab you should have the following line(s):
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> ....
>
> The 2nd field there lists the runlevels that mingetty (the login program)
> should run in. I'm guessing you're missing '5' there.
>
> Rafiq
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sameer Kamat [mailto:sameer at unitrends.com]
> Sent: 29 July 2004 17:57
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: text login
>
>
> Hi
>     I have the default in inittab to run at  5(GUI mode). It works fine,
> but if I hit CTRL+ALT+F1 I do
> not see anything but a black screen. If I set the inittab default to
> runlevel 3,
> then I do get to a text login screen, however when I run startx to get to
> the GUI I lose the text console.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on what I should be doing to fix this ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sameer Kamat
> Unitrends Software Corporation
> sameer at unitrends.com
> 803-454-0300 ext 211
>
>
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