On 10/23/2013 12:01 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Scott Robbins wrote:
To view the startup, when you boot, hit any key, then hit e as in edit (I think--otherwise, just use the arrow key to get down to the line beginning with Linux and when you highlight that line hit e to edit.
At the end of that line you will see rhgb quiet. Remove those two words, hit enter, which should take you back the main menu, and then hit b for boot. (I'm doing this from memory, but I think there are instructions on the screen once you get to the e for edit part.
Here is the last bit of the startup output, copied by hand: Starting abrt daemon OK user had insufficient privilege Starting crond OK Starting atd OK Starting virt-who OK Starting libvird daemon OK Bridge firewalling registered tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.6 tun: (C) 1994-2004 Max Krasnyansky maxk@qualcomm.com device virb0-nic entered promiscous mode virb0: starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP Ebtable v20 registered lo: Disabled Provacy Extensions _
At that point the watch mouse cursor appeared. The text stayed. After going back and forth between virtual erminals, the mouse cursor was gone.
Does this help with diagnosis?
Have you looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log file - it sounds like there is a problem with X.
Also someone mentioned editing /etc/inittab and setting the run level to 3. id:5:initdefault: - change the 5 to a 3. If it boots to a non-gui login prompt then the problem is definitely X related.
HTH, Steve