On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
Have inconsistency in getting it to let me login. Yesterday noluck. At '$ runlevel' got 5 3 so it must have been at runlevel 3. startx no help, back to blue screen. Today, just started it first time and it booted right to GUI login screen. All is OK that has been set up like email, FF, printer etc. Checked Pref/System/Network Connection and the box is greyed out. Pref/SysytemNetwork Proxy only 'Direct Internet connection' is ticked. Everything else is greyed out. Ran updates also. This happened a few days back and was fine as long as I stay logged in. Re-boot or shutdown was not good. Couldn't log in again. Then surprisingly today it is back. WTF ? Other HDs are OK and work reliably.
It's hard to make sense of random behavior. I'd still guess it is some hardware-related issue. You might get a hint from /var/log/messages if you look at what happened (or didn't) when it is hung compared to older startups that worked, but there will be a lot to wade through.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com