Problems when booting up...

[Derek Broughton]

Larry Shields wrote:

> I'm not sure if anyone has had this problem or not, but here is what
> happens when I boot the system up...

Not in a long, long, time...

> It starts out with grub, then show a black screen with a loading bar,
> but the bar gets just about to the end, then it reverts back to a black
> screen, with a login prompt...
> 
> I now have to login, then startx to get it up and running...Might anyone
> know how to correct the problem, so that it will bootup correctly...???

What do you _want_ to happen?  startx starts X for a single user, and afaik
isn't ever set up to automatically run from init (though I'm sure you could
do it, I wouldn't recommend it).  If you want a GUI login (GDM, KDM, XDM),
then first you need to have the appropriate package installed, and active
in /etc/rc2.d/ (installing one of the *dm packages _should_ set up the init
links).

If you can run that script from sudo, then check /var/log/Xorg.*.log
and /var/log/*dm.log for error messages.

Since startx does work, I would expect that you're using a login manager and
the errors are in the /var/log/*dm.log file.
-- 
derek