X doesn't start when booting in run level 5

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Mon Mar 7 12:43:33 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 23:58 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When my computer boots to run level 5, it hangs on starting X.  The screen
> just freezes up with red and green vertical lines and the computer stops
> responding to input.
> 
> The weird thing is that if I boot to run level 3 and manually type startx,
> then X starts up just fine.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 

Try booting without rhgb and quiet on the kernel command line.  There
was an earlier issue with rhgb and dri.  I cannot remember the details.

One other thing:  If you boot into runlevel 3 and then enter runlevel 5
does X start?  BTW:  Runlevel 3 also stops rhgb from running.

Bob...






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