Problems when booting up...

[Larry Shields]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
>   
Hello Derek,
Well what I want it too do it to start up as it all ways did when it was 
first installed...
Showing the bar loading, then it switches to a screen with a light brown 
in color with a small rectangular box for loging in...
At that point typing my username & password, hiting enter it brings up 
Gnome desktop...

But now what it does is show the loading bar, but it never finishes 
loading, then it switches me to a back screen with a log in 
prompt...From that point I log in, then I have too use startx to bring 
up my desktop...So I suppose it is GDM that I am looking for...So what 
is the appropriate package that I am missing...??? Plus why would it be 
missing since it has all ways worked prior to this problem, I can not 
see what has been changed, or remove and why...

I looked in my /var/log dir., but did not see a *dm.log file, so what 
may I ask is *dm, do you mean the dmesg.gz log's...???

Thanks for all of you input...

Larry

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