[PLUG] boot and start Gnome

Swapnil J spj318ti at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 27 20:49:35 UTC 2002


Paul,
Actually my inittab does have runlevel 5. yet it 
stills boots up to a login prompt.
I also did run the telinit commands as you had given 
but it didn't touch the inittab file.

Thanks,
Swapnil.

--- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Swapnil J wrote:
> 
> > I just installed redhat 7.3 and after a small
> effort, it is talking
> > to my netgear router MR 314. But unlike before,
> now when I boot I
> > get a login prompt with my hostname dhcppc2. and
> after I login i
> > have to startX and then it starts my Gnome
> session.
> 
> > Why did this start happening and more importantly
> what should I do
> > to revert back so that when the machine boots , it
> loads a Gnome
> > session, without me hvg to invoke it ?  Shd I be
> changing the
> > inittab file.
> 
> Yes. Open /etc/inittab and look for the initdefault
> line:
> 
>   id:3:initdefault:
> 
> Change the 3 to a 5, i.e.,
> 
>   id:5:initdefault:
> 
> I've never taken the time to figure out the cleanest
> way to get from 
> runlevel 3 to 5. I *think* this would work, but I've
> never verified 
> it:
> 
> 1. Logout of all console and X sessions.
> 
> 2. Press Alt-F1 to get to the first virtual console.
> 
> 3. Login as root.
> 
> 4. /sbin/telinit q; /sbin/telinit 5
> 
> 5. Logout from root console session.
> 
> 6. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get to graphical login
> screen.
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
> 
> 
> 
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