Hi. I'm using Fedora core 6 with NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1 driver.

Everytime my system boots with /etc/inittab set to "run level 5" the GUI login displays quickly and then just as quickly returns me to a console login. I know that X hasn't crashed, because i hit Ctrl + Alt + f7 and I have my regular login. Of course, I can't restart X from virtual console 1 as it is already running.

Has anybody had this problem? It only happens on occasion. What am I supposed to do?

Just to clarify, your login window displays, then before you can even log in it kicks you over to vc1? Can you log in on vc7 after you switch back over to it? Have you tried quitting X on vc7 then restarting it with startx? Which display manager are you using?(gdm/kdm,etc...) Can you boot to level 3 and startx?

Yes, that's exactly what happens.

Yes. However, it is kind of annoying to have to do that everytime as I am not somebody who leaves my computer on for all hours.

Yes, I've tried that and it's kdm. This didn't used to happen but for a while I was using run level 3, then went back to run level 5 and it started.

I checked /var/log/messages and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Try looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for any X-server error messages. (tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log should suffice.)

Do you have something running in /etc/rc.local that might cause the problem? Or in .kde/autostart?

Once you log on to tty7, try a start -- :1 (as a normal user) to start a new X-session on tty8. If that works, switch back to tty7 to see if any interesting errors are displayed. If it doesn't work, you should be bounced back to tty7 where, hopefully, you'll find a message telling you why you were bounced back.

rc.local sounds like the more likely culprit. Post it, along with the error message.

Well, it did it again this morning.

There are no errors in xorg.conf. here's what's at the end:


I don't have a "start" command but I can "Start New session" from KDE and it seems to work OK.

there's nothing in kde auto start and here's what's in rc.local:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local


Basically, it briefly shows the login screen, the system bell rings, and I'm at VC1.

maybe instead of start, do startx --:1, might give you different result.