system boot in runlevel 1instad of runlevel 5

anil98433 · 11-21-2013, 01:22 AM

Hi frns,

I am facing problem reagrding to booting of my machine running on rhel 5 actually every time when i am starting my machine (linux server RHEL 5) it automatically enters in runlevel 1 and to enter in to runlevel 5 i am using startx command or init 5 command....n when i check /etc/inittab file every thing was fine i.e. runlevel described there is 5 so please tell me the exact solution. Hope to hear soon from you !!

Drakeo · 11-21-2013, 01:26 AM

you can pass telinit 3 from grub not sure if in RH but in slackware you can edit your /etc/initab

Quote:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

druuna · 11-21-2013, 01:53 AM

@anil98433: Normally RHEL boots into runlevel 3 or 5. There are 2 places you can influence this behaviour: From grub, by adding single or 1 to the kernel line or from /etc/inittab

If both are correct and the system still boots into runlevel 1 then something is probably wrong. Is there any information in the log files? Have a look in /var/log. Specifically dmesg and messages.

anil98433 · 11-21-2013, 02:13 AM

Thanks for writing. however one thing i want to ask why it not enter in runlevel 5 however i had made entry in /etc/inittab "id:5:initdefault:" as per your suggestion it will enter in runlevel 3 which is cui but i want Gui. i appriciate your help in this regards.

Thanks
Anil

John VV · 11-21-2013, 02:33 AM

level 5 is the GUI
and xorg needs to be installed
most servers do not have x installed nor even want it installed

you do NOT need a gui on a headless server ( no monitor so no need for a desktop environment )

if you really MUST add Gnome2 to a server
see the rather old rhel5 install docs
https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...erprise_Linux/
but if there is no monitor physically attached to this server gnome will be of very little use .

for the current older RHEL 5.10 have a look at the output of

Code:

su -
yum grouplist

for a list of software groups