Crashes or locks up?
the gray screen goes away?
In any case, getting rid of that last line was the right thing to do
(if you don't want to boot into X); now it's just a matter of figuring
out why startx is so short.
Do you have a .xinitrc? What does it contain, if so?
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Stephen F. Bosch said:
| >> OK, I tried "mx init 3" with the same result. At one point in the boot it
| says:
| >> INIT: Switching to runlevel 5 in 2 seconds
| >> sbin/telinit 5
|
| >I swear... it looks like you have weird stuff in your inittab.
| >Why don't you post it?
|
| OK, it's below my sig. I might mention that, as an experiment, I commented out
| the last line. Mandrake then boots just to the console (that's good), but when
| I run startx, X gets as far as the gray screen with the X cursor, and then it
| crashes. None of the text on the console screen looks like errors, and the last
| line is like "Waiting for X server to shut down."
|
| I might add that, even with the last line commented out, during the boot
| process I still see the line, "INIT: Switching to runlevel 5."
| --
| Lane
| ____
| Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
| Using Linux to get where I want to go...
|
| # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
| # the system in a certain run-level.
|
| # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| # 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:3: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.
| # commented out by Lane
| # 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
| 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1
|
| # Run xdm in runlevel 5
| # xdm is now a separate service
| x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
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