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How do I boot into graphical windows under Redhat?

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max105

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I had my red had linux boot into the graphical windows interface by default before, but then it started booting into the console version now. I don't know how this happenened and I don't think I've changed anything to make this happen.

I asked my friend about it and he told me to check the 'inittab' file in the /etc directory. I checked the runlevel and it's running into the X11 mode by default which I think is the graphical interface version. If I'm wrong please correct me.

Otherwise, how can I fix this? I'm don't want to reload linux again. I'm using Red Hat version 7.3.
 
in the /etc/inittab file there is a line near the top that says

id:X:initdefault:

where X is the default runlevel, 3 is text mode. 5 is graphical. don't use other runlevels.
 
Thanks for the reply mcveigh, but it still isn't working. That was the same advice my friend gave me. I checked it and it was always at runlevel 5. Any other ideas?
 
You probably are booting into X, but there could be a setting that is causing it to die on you. Check /var/log/XFree86.X.log where X is the number of the log with the newest timestamp... I think that should be 0. There should be some good error messages to follow in there.

 
Make sure there's a start up script to run your display manager. Check in /etc/rcX.d/ (Not sure if RedHat sticks them anywhere else)
If the scripts there, see if you get an error running it.
 
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