Re: gdm fails to start

Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:

Does X start from a user logged in using runlevel 3 and using startx to launch X, or do you get the same error?

Jim


Hi Jim, after booting gdm does not starts but I can login from text console. Then
I make startx and everything works. Probably I have made an error while upgrading the kernel. To make this I have to install newer version of udev. -Andrzej


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It have a similar problem with an RHEL clone updated to to FC5 test2 that does not start the X server in runlevel 5 but works fine in runlevel 3 using startx.
I did not investigate the problem much on this very unsupported system. I assume that something in runlevel 5 is amiss. Maybe a service is not loaded that is needed by gdm and runlevel 5 execution.

It is great that at least runlevel 3 and startx work for you. Did you disable any services that you though might not be used?

Jim

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