[rhn-users] Kernel Update Question About 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL

[Bill]

I have the same thing happening on my Dell PowerEdge where the video goes bad when the 
X11 launches.

I found that if you change:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
in /etc/inittab, and copy /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S91smb to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d

This causes the system to come up to init state 3 instead of 5, and not launch the X11 
programs. The console gets a non-gui login. But at least the system is stable.

Bill Watson
bill at magicdigits.com



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Lee Terrell <leet at directcon.net>
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Sent: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:06:24 -0800
Subject: [rhn-users] Kernel Update Question About 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a group of Dell PowerEdge 2850's I have recently received with
> Red Hat ES 4.  The machines all run well after the base install, and I
> can up2date everything to the ES 4 Update 2 levels.
> 
> After I try a kernel update to 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL or 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp,
> either one, after the boot up, I loose X windows capability on the
> console, but I can still ssh and manage things that way.  I come from a
> background of using Red Hat 6-9 in a command line only environment, and
> we wanted to see what benefit we could have by also making X Windows
> available under ES 4.
> 
> I can log in with ssh and revert back to the original kernel, and the
> issue is still there.  My guess is that with the kernel update, some
> config for X Windows either gets changed or deleted.  Has anyone else
> seen an issue like this and can point me in a direction of a file or
> files I can investigate?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any advice,
> Lee Terrell
> 
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