At Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:38:41 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 08/28/2010 05:29 PM, ganu MailList wrote:
I had set the initdefault as 5
So, X11 should start up.
Could you elaborate your question? What's happening (or not happening)?
I think the OP is seeing the console login screen *briefly* between the end of the startup and the appearence of the GUI login screen. He probably has the (default) graphical startup (which shows a graphical progress bar screen instead of the 'Starting foo [OK]' lines on the system console. Once the startup finishes, the graphical progress bar screen goes away, the console login screen shows up (briefly) and then gdm starts the X server for its GUI login screen.
This is normal (for UNIX/Linux systems). I know, it is not very 'Windowsy', which 'seamlessly' goes from its 'Windows is starting...' to its GUI login screen. This is due to these factors:
1) Even when you set the init level to 5, the console login screen(s) are still available -- Ctrl-Alt-F1...F6 are available for console logins, and Ctrl-Alt-F7 selects the GUI login screen.
2) The incarnation of the X server that is running during the graphical startup is not continious with the incarnation of the X server that is running (started by) gdm for GUI logins.
Note: unlike MS-Windows, the X server (the GUI subsystem) is a user-mode process and is transient. It is actually re-started when one logs out.
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