Michael Orion Jackson wrote:
>
> Today when I booted up to linux 2.2.10 this happened:
> 1. boot proceeds normally through the point when it should
> bring up the Redhat logo with the gdm login box screen (and
> it says that the X Font Server was started normally).
> 2. instead of giving me the gdm screen, the moniter cycles
> on and off rapidly about 15-20 times (~30 seconds). Then I
> get booted out to a text login. The text above that says
> something to the affect that X was cycling too rapidly, and above
> that there is a sequence of things saying that gdm had been
> mysterously murdered (shows ~10 iterations).
Whenever I have seen this, I log in at the text prompt, `telinit 3` then run an
X config util, usually XF86Setup, but sometimes Xconfigurator, depending on the
hardware. After that I run `telinit 5` and it pulls up gdm and everything works
again.
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