id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab on RH8

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, George Gambill wrote:

> I thought you could control booting to a GUI by id:5:initdefault: in
> /etc/inittab.

Not needed or required. It is just another way to do it.

> For some reason, I have two RH8 boxes that boot to the text based login with
> id:5:initdefault: in /etc/inittab. Same thing with id:3:initdefault:. Any
> ideas?

Check your inittab for a "respawn" that handles xdm (or X).

Also look at your runlevel scripts (for 3 and 5 like rc3.d and rc5.d or
whatever) to see if they startup any X. (The scripts start with an "S".)

(Of course, you need to have X configured and working first before you
should attempt starting via inittab and runlevels.)

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/