CentOS 5, yum update, X11 problems

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Matthew Gillen wrote:

> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> I installed CentOS 5 on a laptop, performed a yum update, then, after
>> everything was patched, instead of bringing me to the X tty window
>> (tty7) it left me with a text-only tty window.  I chance CNTL-ALT-7
>> brought me to the waiting window manager login screen.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this?   Please remind me what file I need to
>> change to have the system present the window manager at first boot again.
>
> /etc/inittab has a line:
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> where '3' is multi-user+network but console-only, and '5' is that plus xdm/gdm

I thought so - I did check /etc/inittab first thing, and the entry above 
does show true on the system, hense my question to the list to see if 
there is/was anything else to look at...

id:5:initdefault:
(as the first uncommented line)

Then, at the bottom of the file:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Scott

>
> Matt
>

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