gdm fails to start

[Jim Cornette]

Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:

>>Does X start from a user logged in using runlevel 3 and using startx to 
>>launch X, or do you get the same error?
>>
>>Jim
> 
> 
> Hi Jim, 
> after booting gdm does not starts but I can login from text console. Then
> I make startx and everything works. 
> Probably I have made an error while upgrading the kernel. To make this 
> I have to install newer version of udev. 
> -Andrzej 
> 
> 
>>-- 

It have a similar problem with an RHEL clone updated to to FC5 test2 
that does not start the X server in runlevel 5 but works fine in 
runlevel 3 using startx.
I did not investigate the problem much on this very unsupported system. 
I assume that something in runlevel 5 is amiss. Maybe a service is not 
loaded that is needed by gdm and runlevel 5 execution.

It is great that at least runlevel 3 and startx work for you. Did you 
disable any services that you though might not be used?

Jim

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