Init-level 5 but X11 don't start

sjoe · 09-20-2004, 03:48 AM

My HD got full and when rebooting X11 couldn’t start. After a while I got a message that my display was disabled.

After removing temporary files I can reboot without problem, but I only get to login prompt, no X is started. But running startx works fine.

How can I get X to start without having to login and run startx?

Thanks

/Sven

MartinN · 09-20-2004, 04:50 AM

Hi Sven

Maybe the settings was changed when your HDD got full? If root issues the command:
/sbin/runlevel
does it say 3 then? If so, root should edit the file
/etc/inittab
Look for this line:
id:3:initdefault:
and change 3 to 5

Good luck!
Martin

theonebeyond · 09-20-2004, 04:54 AM

Are you running slackware? because in slackware it is runlevel 4 ....

sjoe · 09-20-2004, 05:29 AM

/sbin/runlevel shows 5.
And I'm using Redhat 8.0.

More ideas?

scuzzman · 09-20-2004, 06:00 AM

try "startx" - does it load your GUI?

sjoe · 09-20-2004, 06:46 AM

Yes, startx works fine, X is started as usually, no errors.

But I want it to start automatically.

I'm beginning to suspect that something has been removed from /etc/rc5.d. What need to be there to start X? Is there a utility to configure X manually?

bathory · 09-20-2004, 07:05 AM

Do as MartinN said: Edit your /etc/inittab and put "5" at the line initdefault

sjoe · 09-20-2004, 07:24 AM

My initdefault IS 5. Still X11 is not starting. And no errors. And startx works fine!

MartinN · 09-20-2004, 07:46 AM

I haven't seen this problem myself, but we could start trying to figure it out. Are you familiar with the command line and editing configuration files? Things will be a lot easier if you have at least a little experience in that.

There should be a section like this in your /etc/inittab file:

Code:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

This means that init will restart the script file /etc/X11/prefdm whenever it exits. Do you have a section like that in inittab?

By the way, one of my machines is running RedHat 8, so your scripts should look pretty much like mine.

Martin

sjoe · 09-20-2004, 08:05 AM

Thank you MartinN!

After the X11 faild to start I tried to edit inittab and chage initdefault to 3, but it turned out that I had changed the x-line in stead of id-line!

So after returning the x-line to 5 everything works fine!

Thanks!