[CentOS] Another CentOS 5 oddity: reboot and the X server fails tocome up

Michael St. Laurent mikes at hartwellcorp.com
Wed May 2 20:02:21 UTC 2007


> I had to reboot my work machine today, and it came up in text mode
> (!).  I did an init 5, but that had no effect (wrong command?).  I
> killed the three gdm processes, and voila, X server mode.
> 
> Where do I look to find out what is not right here?

My server comes up in run-level 5 but I have to hit ctrl-alt-f7 to
switch to the x-server screen.  It doesn't switch to it automatically
for some reason.  Once I've changed to the graphical virtual screen
everything else seems to work normally.



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