Help!!! Need to fix GUI login!

[Pat Plummer]

On Monday, Sep 16, 2002, at 12:01 US/Mountain,  Anthony Tambourino 
wrote:
> I tried looking around the threads for this problem, but saw nothing.
>
> I booted up my Powerbook yesterday and it won't load the GUI login 
> interface.  It gets stuck in a loop at the text interface and I can't 
> break out of it (forcing me to do a hard reset).
>
> I loaded in the rescue CD, but that just gets me to a prompt.  I can't 
> even begin to figure out where to look to try to reset anything.
>
Do this again (use the rescue CD). IIRC, that should have you in single 
user mode. If not, log in as root.

Use pico to edit the /etc/inittab file, so you boot in run level 3.

Change the line that reads:
id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

Save the file and restart (not from the rescue CD).

This should allow allow you to boot to a text login.

log in.

type startx and press enter. Does X load up and get you back to the 
gui? If yes, the problem is with gdm or kdm (whichever you are using). 
If X does not load, then you should get some error messages that will 
lead you to the problem.

Post back here if you have trouble figuring it out.

HTH,

Pat
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