Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually jerry
One centos 6 I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf
In it there is "exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon"
When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no X windows starting up. This is what is not happening.
X is not starting on reboot. /etc/inittab has runlevel 5. Thoughts?
Jerry
I finally see in /var/log/messages (which I looked at first) that the error. prefdm is respawning too fast...
still stuck... I tried removing all files in the ~ directory in /root and my user. Same result no X windows by default. startx still works.
Jerry
WOW - after following the scripts prefdm -> gdm - somehow gdm was not even installed. Not sure how that can be with a "graphical" install on kickstart and asking also @general-desktop and @internet-browser in my kickstart file.
Anyway when I did "yum reinstall gdm" it said it wasnt installed. so I did "yum install gdm" and it installed - I rebooted and X is now running.
Again - not sure how gdm did not get installed. Maybe I'll add that to the kickstart file.
Jerry