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CentOS 5, yum update, X11 problems



Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I installed CentOS 5 on a laptop, performed a yum update, then, after
> everything was patched, instead of bringing me to the X tty window
> (tty7) it left me with a text-only tty window.  I chance CNTL-ALT-7
> brought me to the waiting window manager login screen.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?   Please remind me what file I need to
> change to have the system present the window manager at first boot again.

/etc/inittab has a line:
 id:5:initdefault:

where '3' is multi-user+network but console-only, and '5' is that plus xdm/gdm

Matt

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