newbie redhat update problem

[Justin Bennett]

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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