gdm(?) login screen gone

[Bob Holtzman]

I tried posting this in comp.os.linux.misc. Got a couple of responses but
nothing worked. Maybe someone here knows about this.

After copying some files to my zip disk I found I couldn't unmount the
drive (device busy) even though I was in the /mnt directory. Not being
aware of "fuser" the only thing I could think of was to reboot. Big
mistake! The shutdown messages showed a failure to unmount hdd1 and when it
booted it showed hda6 and 7 (/ and /home) not cleanly unmounted and forced
check (of course) which both passed. When it finished I was in an X window,
no GUI login (which it should have been) _or_ CLI. Rebooting into run level
3 gave me a CLI and "startx" brought up Gnome. All apps seem o.k. Using
Gnome's menu logout returns to CLI instead of graphical login and lists
several Gtk and GnomeUI warnings and a command prompt.  

Can't find anything in the logs pertaining to this.

Ran across some wierd entries in /var/gdm/:0.log but I don't know their
relationship to this problem:

AUDIT: Wed Jan 10 00:39:50 2001: 525 X: client 1 rejected from local host
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server 

Any pointers or suggestions on how to boot directly into run level 5 and
get the GUI login back or how to begin attacking this would be appreciated.

I'm running Redhat 6.0  



Bob Holtzman 
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
check the price of the beer!"