I boot Linux (Red Hat 7.1) to a command prompt at startup and when I feel like it I eventually 'startx'. startx would usually start my window manager immediately but
recently for some unknown reason it hangs on the gray x background and never runs my window manger. If I change may /etc/inittab file to boot x on startup, namely
change the run level to run level 5 (id:5:initdefault
instead of run level 3 and restart - the window manager works fine. I have tried this as both root and as a
regular user but my window manager no longer starts from a run level 3 boot. I have noticed a broken sym link that shows up in my home directory b/c of this that looks a little suspious. The file is ~/.DCOPserver_hostname -> ~/.DCOPserver_hostname_:0
Neither of these files exist. I think this might have something to do with my problem. Any ideas?
Thanks,
-bitwise
recently for some unknown reason it hangs on the gray x background and never runs my window manger. If I change may /etc/inittab file to boot x on startup, namely
change the run level to run level 5 (id:5:initdefault
instead of run level 3 and restart - the window manager works fine. I have tried this as both root and as a regular user but my window manager no longer starts from a run level 3 boot. I have noticed a broken sym link that shows up in my home directory b/c of this that looks a little suspious. The file is ~/.DCOPserver_hostname -> ~/.DCOPserver_hostname_:0
Neither of these files exist. I think this might have something to do with my problem. Any ideas?
Thanks,
-bitwise