On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Friday July 18, 2003 Bob Mclaughlin wrote: > > When I enter 'startx' I immediately get a 'no signal' > > message on screen. After about a minute the usual startup > > screen appears and it slowly loads to the desktop screen. > > It then continues unresponsive to mouse or keyboard input > > until the 'no signal' message reappears and the screen > > blanks. I'm running the latest shrike kernel and no > > non-redhat supplied goodies. Can someone give me (command > > line dummy) some hints on how to get and read the proper > > logs, what files may have gotten corrupted or any other > > hints? TIA > > Bob, > > These days 'startx' is not a common way to start X. Is there a particular > reason why you are using that rather than runlevel 5 (which ensures all of > the companion stuff starts in the proper order)? We suggested that he start X that way, because starting in runlevel 5 wasn't getting him anywhere. He'd get to the graphical login screen, and keyboard/mouse activity would cease. I suggested booting to runlevel 3 and bypassing the X login, to see if that was the issue for him. Obviously, it was not. -- 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, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
