I tried runlevel 3 got to the command line I ran xinit and then ran
/etc/init.d/gdm start
Now again I get the plain blaack screen with the mouse clock cursor but
nothing shows up....

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> James Pinto wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I get a plain black screen after booting blfs,
> > I had just completed installing gnome and then installed gdm.
> > I have also installed the blfs bootscripts for gdm.
> > After all this I restarted the laptop and booted into the blfs
> installation
> > I just get a black screen with a cursor, but I dont get the greeter
> screen.
>
> Did you try booting to run level 3, e.g. a command line?
> Do that first.  Then try startx to get windows going.  After that works,
> try using gdm.
>
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