Re: Blue Screen

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 18:56 +0000, tony chamberlain lemko com wrote:
>  
> We installed Linux and some software for a customer and sent him the
> machine.
> First we made sure everything was OK, rebooted, etc.
> 
> But now when he is trying to bring it up it goes through all the
> initialization stuff,
> etc., but then he just gets the blue screen (you know, you usually get
> a blue
> screen but with a login box in the middle?).  Anyway all he gets is a
> blue screen.
> 
> Any idea what could be wrong?  I know before there was a problem where
> in /etc/inittab
> for runlevel 3, instead of 
> 
>         id:5:initdefault:
> 
> 
> I put
> 
>         x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> but I tried this on a machine here.  It never gives you the blue
> screen.
> It hangs after the initialization, and never goes into X.  Also, I had
> him bring up the kernal select and put a " s" for single-user mode,
> but the same thing happened.
> 
> Any ideas?
I would first want to know what happens before the blue screen. There is
no way the booting to single user could get you a blue gdm screen.
I would suspect a mangled grub.conf file.
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