On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andrew Monkhouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently did a clean install of RedHat 9 onto my system (and run the
> updates), and initially had it booting to runlevel 3. I later changed that
> in inittab to go to runlevel 5. Now when I boot, it stops at the terminal
> login screen until I press enter a few times, then it starts X and goes to
> the graphical login screen.
>
> This is not a case of me being impatient: if I leave it at the terminal
> login screen for a few hours, it will still be there. Then when I press
> enter a few times, it will start X and go to the graphical login screen.
Just one... try turning off the 'firstboot' service. Normally this starts
in graphical mode and takes you through some post-install config which
isn't critical - you can do it all later. My thinking is somehow it's
stuffing up and not flipping to graphics mode since the updates were
applied. Yes, it is possible the bug fixes actually create bugs.
Apart from that... you might modify the line in /etc/inittab that starts X
to log all output to a file if it's an X problem.
Another trick I do on servers mainly is move the initialisation of console
2 early in the inittab file.. there's a snip below. This allows you to
quickly login as root and watch the rest of the system initialisation.
Particularly handy if you've got fun with NFS mounts everywhere and it
hangs (or you're too impatient).
# 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
# console 2 starts early, remove it from further down this file
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
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
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