Daniel B. Thurman <dant <at> cdkkt.com> writes:
Geez... everything was working find when I installed F12 but perhaps the latest update blew everything out of the water!
My gdm fails to bring up X11 and falls out. I am however able to get into F2 and log in as root.
Also, I noticed during boot up, the following also fails to start:
avahi daemon HAL daemon ntp daemon
I then proceeded to update once more and there is nothing more to update.
So, what do I need to do at this point to recover gdm?
Thanks- Dan
Hi, Become a root user as you said you do.
Take a look at /etc/inittab and familiarize yourself for a minute. Basically, we want to change the way how you get into your system after booting it. We drop gdm and do it thru non-gui login.
Now, edit the file below and just copy the last line to the next line, comment out the old one, and change the new line to id:3 as you see it. Note: be careful not to add any extra line beyond the id:3... line . It is a known quirk about how that config file is parsed !
# vi /etc/inittab ... #*jb* id:5:initdefault: id:3:initdefault:
File the changes and reboot your system with # reboot
When you get your text login screen, login as a regular user and do $ startx This should bring up your X with e.g. Gnome desktop.
Go to menu System - Administration - Services and deactivate offending services for the time beeing, i.e. avahi, ntp, BUT NOT haldaemon (this one must be be active: click Customize button to make sure that it is checked off on level 3,4,5; after that make sure that it is Enabled (also a button), and click Start button).
Once you do that resboot your machine again (System - Shutdown - Restart). JB