FC in non-gui
Mark Haney
mhaney at interactsys.com
Thu Nov 4 14:32:26 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:26, Sri Chav wrote:
> I changed the value in the inittab file. However, xstart doesn't work. Looks
> like the xwindows part of installation did not go well. I had installed FC2
> on top of my RH linux 8.3. Any suggestions on how to correct this problem?
>
> Thanks
> -s-
Don't you mean startx? What errors are you getting?
>
>
> >From: gillian <gillian.bennett at celentia.com>
> >Reply-To: gillian.bennett at celentia.com,For users of Fedora Core releases
> ><fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: FC in non-gui
> >Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:36:51 +1000
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:57, Sri Chav wrote:
> > > Can anyone explain why FC starts only in non-gui mode? How can I use FC
> >in
> > > gui mode?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -s-
> > >
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> >Have a look at your /etc/inittab file. It is a text file that you can
> >edit using vi or whatever you want to use. Look for the lines:
> >
> ># Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> ># 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> ># 1 - Single user mode
> ># 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
> >networking)
> ># 3 - Full multiuser mode
> ># 4 - unused
> ># 5 - X11
> ># 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> >#
> >id:5:initdefault:
> > ^
> >this is what determins the runlevel your box will start in. If you have
> >a 3 where the 5 is in this line, then change it to a 5 and reboot your
> >box. It should start up in GUI mode then.
> >
> >ta, gb
> >
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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux
09:31:59 up 1:47, 2 users, load average: 4.44, 3.89, 3.37
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