CentOS 5.10 Graphical problems..
 

Hi,
could you please help me here.my CentOS 5.10 running on HP proliant DL380 G7.The OS run with Graphical mode.few months ago my OS faced GUI problem but I solved. Now facing same problem with different errors.

I have installed yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE(K Desktop Environment)" and "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment" but no good result.

After booting OS it shows
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" [it comes with many lines after by after]..then..
INIT: Id "1" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: Id "2" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: Id "3" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: Id "4" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: Id "5" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: Id "6" respawaning too fast: disable for five minute
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mingetty" [it comes with many lines after by after]....continuing..

How I can resolve it please ??
To provide you such hints below I have uploaded two file which show the result after executing...
1/ in against the command "vim /etc/inittab" shows such results (red colored) those I never seen before.

2/ When I tried to run "startx" it shows the errors.


any support please ???

regards//
Jamshed

You'll need to boot the machine to single user mode (if you Google for CentOS single user mode you should find instructions for how to do it) and see if /sbin/mingetty is present, for starters. The mingetty program is responsible for starting the text-mode consoles when your system finishes booting. It's usually always present and several instances are configured to start on boot (one for each of the virtual consoles, usually tty1-tty6, while the GUI is access via ctrl+alt+F7). If it's missing, there is likely something very wrong with the system and other things may be very broken as well. It's usually best to fix problems one at a time, so please see if you can resolve this, and then tell us exactly how you start the graphics (e.g. do you first login to a text console and then "startx", or does the system boot to a graphical login manager?) and any other error messages you receive when trying to do so.

The 2nd screenshot shows its failing to find a conf file; likely xorg.conf https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/D...iguration.html.
See also the mentioned Xorg log file.
You should get similar info from /var/log/dmesg.
Its possible the system got updated and doesn't have the correct driver for the video.

If you have to set the xorg.conf manually, this article may be helpful https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

Hi chrism01,

Here I have attached the file as the result of "/var/log/dmesg" and "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"

Please suggest any solution. Still not booting with GUI.

@ btmiller
there are no "mingetty" file under "/sbin/". From the internet it is not installing using the yum. so I am trying by a local repository.
or any help from your end please ?


regards//
Jamshed

Hi btmiller,

I have installed the .rpm file for mingetty by yum but there are no file are available after installation in /sbin/ location .
any sugessition ?


regards//
Jamshed