newbie redhat update problem

[Floyd Baker]

Justin, James and all...

Thanks for the information.  

A really strange thing.  Armed myself with notes on vi and booted up
to go after the inittab file but it went right up into gnome.  There
was nothing done differently from those times it wouldn't come up but
now it's back to working normally.  I found the id:5:initdefault line
as it should be. 

There is an *extremely* long wait though on bringing up programs.
Like I click on the run menu or a game for example and everything
takes more than a full minute to come up.  

Since downloading the Redhat updates there is an error message coming
up about the file manager not being compatible with gnome.  Is that
something that might be causing my troubles?  I have't installed any
file managers different than what Redhat supplied.  

Thanks again.

Floyd



On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:33:31 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>
>Does it come up in text mode and ask you to login then you get bash? ok
>how familiar are you with editing files? there is a file /etc/inittab
>if you type the command (from bash):
>cat /etc/inittab |grep initdefault
>you should see:
>
># 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
># 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
>id:5:initdefault:
>
>make sure it says id:5:initdefault this means it will boot into runlevel 5
>(gui) by default. If that is 3 then it will boot command. Let me know what
>it says if it's 3 then I'll tell you how to change it...
>
>Justin
>


>Floyd Baker said:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I hate to ask but what happened to my qui?   Last night I downloaded a
>> bunch of redhat 7.3 updates to my first and still very unfamiliar
>> linux machine and now it only brings up bash.
>>
>> I'm learning, bash included, but need some time.  :-/  Can someone
>> please tell me how gnome can be made to come up on boot again?   I'm
>> sort of at a loss.  The people who made the box up for me have gone
>> away.
>>
>> Thanks much...
>>
>> Floyd
>>
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