Suse 9.0 - KDE 3.1

PC boots to runlevel 5 - I can log into the GUI sucessfully, and can drop to runlevel 3 (to save resources for running Daemons/ftp/etc) by entering init 3 at the command line.

However, when I try to go back to runlevel 5 (by entering init 5 at the command prompt) the computer loads the GUI login box and allows me to complete the GUI login again, but hangs immediatly thereafter at a blank blue (graphical) screen.... what you would see just before the KDE loading window appears. restarting the X server (cntrl+alt+backspace) takes me back to a frozen command prompt.

Am I going about changing runlevels the wrong way? If not, what logs should I check / where should I begin the troubleshooting process?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Tom

/var/log/messages might be a good place to start
You could also try from command line:
startx > xlog.txt 2>&1
and then see what's in xlog.txt

I think there was a debugging option for startx, but I don't remember what it was.

nothing in the messages file, and my box does not have an xlog.txt file???

any other suggestions....

thanks

bump...

any other suggestions? Im trying to resolve this on a production server!

Thanks everyone in advance - Tom

It won't have one until you execute startx like I suggested in prior post
this launches X and saves any messages it generates, including potential error messages in xlog.txt file. The name is arbitrary, could use why_my_stpd_x_wont_boot if you like

ooopps... that was a rather stupid oversight... my bad.

lemme try that and I'll let you know what happens.