lists-centos wrote:
switch inittab to 3. that will get you a line-mode login. after logging in, issue the command "startx" and debug from there.
- Richard
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Date: Monday, July 25, 2011 02:36:02 PM -0400 From: Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] what really starts x11
my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 however x is not starting
what do i look for as why x is not starting ? it doesnt even attempt to start that i can tell no screen flashing or anything
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thanks
actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually
jerry
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
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
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
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
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I finally see in /var/log/messages (which I looked at first) that the error. prefdm is respawning too fast...
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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.
Yeah, they changed the group names, as I think I mentioned last week. To *stupid* things, like "GNOME Desktop Environment (RPM Fusion Free)".
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.
<snip>
Two guesses....
mark
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Not sure how that can be with a "graphical" install on kickstart and asking also @general-desktop and @internet-browser in my kickstart file.
Yeah, they changed the group names, as I think I mentioned last week. To *stupid* things, like "GNOME Desktop Environment (RPM Fusion Free)".
I thought they'd still got entirely sane names. Indeed, @internet-browser, and @general-desktop still seem to be there as far as I can see, and my kickstart seems to be working just fine.
Perhaps you managed to miss out @basic-desktop?
Does 'yum grouplist -v' enlighten? That shows the descriptive names as well as the hyphenated name you'd use in a kickstart.
jh
On 2011-07-25 22:37, Jerry Geis wrote:
prefdm is respawning too fast
Most likely Xorg is crashing. You are in runlevel 5, therefor prefdm continues to try and respawn. Check the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and then correct what's wrong. Could be dr5iver issue.
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