[Newbie]Redhat 7.3 and X doesn't start default

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Captain Ahab wrote:
> 
> I have Redhat 7.3, and instead of X coming up on boot automatically, it
> brings up a text prompt.  This happens even though I've got the line:
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> in my /etc/inittab file.  I can start x with startx, but I'd rather have
> GDM come up auto with X on boot up.  Please offer suggestions.  Thanks,
> 
> Ahab

my wag is that the autostart is failing. i have noticed that my
suse also puts out the login prompt,but immediately switchs
screens and spawns the kde.

when i broke my x server earlier this week, that is the
behaviour i got, after a boot, i got a tty1 login, but
no switch and gui startup.

what i've not found is where gui startup errors are recorded.
/var/log/* seems to be clueless about what has gone wrong.

hth a little, jackc...


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