Upgrade Stops Booting Into GUI Mode

[Tom Wesley]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 19:25 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Perhaps you gurus here can help me solve the last problem in upgrading my
> fiancee's laptop: the machine will no longer boot into Slackware's run level
> 4 (the equivalent of Red Hat's run level 5): GUI multiuser. It tries, but
> keeps falling back until it pauses, panting, at the "Starting X Session
> Manager" boot line.
> 
>    The last things I upgraded were x.org (from -6.7.0 to -6.8.0) and xfce4
> (from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6). With the prior versions of xorg and xfce4 (and after
> upgrading the rest of the system from Slackware-9.1 to 10.0), there was no
> problem with /etc/inittab set to run level 4.
> 
>    Now, however, it boots fine into run level 3 (the same, multiuser, CLI on
> all distributions, AFAIK) and I can successfully invoke 'startxfce4'. This
> suggests to me that perhaps the reference to kdm in the xfce-4.0.5 was
> dropped in the upgrade to -4.0.6. Or, perhaps kdm took a his somehow.
> 
>    Has anyone any ideas on this? I really need to get this resolved so I can
> get her laptop off my desk and get my own work done. Perhaps even cut the
> grass before it starts raining again.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rich
> 

Check /var/log/xorg... file for the reason xorg is failing.  It's
probably a config file issue.  Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that
looks believable.

-- 
Tom Wesley <tom at tomaw.org>
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