Hanging GUI

Alessandro Brezzi alessandro.brezzi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 16:18:35 UTC 2006


Hi Mark,

2006/10/23, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
>
> Okay everyone, I have a really odd problem.  I have a FC box that's
> simply not bringing up a full login GUI.  It's defaulted to GNOME, but
> for some reason that I can't find it's just showing a blue screen with a
> rotating hourglass.
>
> Now, the system itself has had a working GUI for quite a while until
> this last reboot.  I'm not totally upset over the lack of GUI since it's
> a server, but is there a way to restart GUI?  I can't find xdm or gdm to
> restart, so I'm lost on this.
>
> Or, even better, is there a way to force this box to boot to runlevel 3
> instead of 5?  I've never done that before, so I'm not sure the easiest
> way to do it in FC.


First you can try to stop the current GUI session using CTRL + ALT +
BackSpace
Then open a terminal session with ALT + 1 and log as root. Now you can
modify your inittab in /etc and specify 3 as runlevel

HTH

Alessandro

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> Alessandro Brezzi
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