[Techtalk] Re: blank login screen

[Carla Schroder]

Kathryn Hargreaves writes: 

> 
> I've installed both RH 7.1 and then 7.2 (both clean installs), and have
> alternately specified one of the two different window managers (KDE,
> Gnome), but still get a blank screen when the graphical login prompt
> should show up (that is, after the non-graphical one comes up, or is
> this an indication of a problem).  Any ideas? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Kathy

I betcha it's a simple inittab edit. Somewhere in the installation process 
you are given some login options, I don't remember if this comes in the 
custom install or all of them. But it matters not, this is an easy fix, just 
change your runlevel in /etc/inittab to 5: 

"This line follows a section listing the default runlevels. ....
id:5:initdefault: will start X and take you directly into a graphical 
environment. id:3:initdefault: stops the boot process at a black screen that 
says localhost login:" 

See http://www.bratgrrl.com/xrated.htm, if you need instructions on editing 
this file from the command line. 


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