On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andrew Monkhouse wrote:<snip>
> 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.
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.
That was a good suggestion. I had to do multiple levels of logging, since logging the line in inittab only told me that the next script was running. So then I had to log the next set of scripts then the next level of scripts ...
But got there eventually - turns out that for some reason my environmental variable for ORACLE_HOME is not set when the gdm script runs, so it pauses to find out what the correct value should be. Now I have to find out why the Oracle scripts are even being called when starting gdm. But at least I know where I am going now. Thankyou.
Regards, Andrew
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