Edit your /etc/inittab file, and make sure that the initdefault line has 5 in it, and not 3. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Rich Ransom wrote: > I had a RH 9 box that booted up into Xwindows on startup. It worked > fine for months with only the occasional shutdown for maintenance. > Last week we had a power outage and now when it boots up it comes to > the text login prompt, then the screen flashes like its trying to go > into GUI mode, but it stays black for a few moments then flashes back > to the text prompt. If I log in from the console it continues to > flash the screen like its trying to start the GUI but never does. > Every other proces on the box is running good, its my backup machine > and DNS server. I don't need X but would like to have it back. > Anyone have any ideas, and if not how can I get it to stop trying to > go into GUI screen mode? > > Thanks, > Rich > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
