[ltp] Re: X doesn't start automatically

[Nick Rout]

what does /var/log/XFree86.0.log tell you?

also, does it seem to try and start X and fail, or is just nothing
happening?

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:12:15 -0600
Hector Socas Navarro <navarro@ucar.edu> wrote:

> By the way, I forgot to mention that I checked /etc/inittab and it seems 
> to be set to runlevel 5. Below is the /etc/inittab file
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Hector
> -- 
>                        Hector Socas-Navarro
>                      High Altitude Observatory
>            3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder CO 80307-3000 (USA)
> Phone: 303 497 1543, Fax: 303 497 1589	
> 
> #
> # inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
> #               the system in a certain run-level.
> #
> # Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
> #               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
> #
> 
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #   1 - Single user mode
> #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
> networking)
> #   3 - Full multiuser mode
> #   4 - unused
> #   5 - X11
> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> # System initialization.
> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
> 
> # Things to run in every runlevel.
> ud::once:/sbin/update
> 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
> 
> # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
> # of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
> # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
> # UPS connected and working correctly.
> pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
> 
> # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
> pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
> 
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> 
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> # xdm is now a separate service
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>