I think my install is really messed up.

chornobyl · 03-30-2004, 10:45 PM

Ok, I have had Redhat 9.0 installed for about 5 months, and I have had no problems at all. Today I installed gimp-2.0 and all of the dependencies, and when I restarted later today, instead of getting my usual GUI logon screen, I got some weird blue screen with a gray box that has "xRo@4" or something, and then "yes" or "no" for options on that box. And selecting either of those does nothing. I still have mouse support, and I can still log in console. What should I do to fix this??

DavidPhillips · 03-31-2004, 12:49 AM

Did you use rpm's?

chornobyl · 03-31-2004, 12:53 AM

Ok I got a little of this figured out. I changed by run-level to 3 so my machine boots into console by default. I can manually start the X server now, and its fine. But when I change the run-level back to 5 to login graphically, I still get that weird error. I tried running gdmsetup, but it didn't fix the problem. Yes, I used RPMS for GIMP and its dependencies. Thanks

DavidPhillips · 03-31-2004, 01:14 AM

Maybe you could check the inittab file to see if your using /etc/X11/prefdm.

If so check out that script and see whats getting done there. Maybe check the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. If that display manager is whacked you could try another or maybe try to reinstall it.