Mandriva 10.2 LE bootup problem!

[Shifty]

My bootloader works fine, then I get to the screen ¨booting system¨ where you can press esc for verbose mode. Anyway, after that it throws me into the command console instead of booting into my graphical environment. Then I have to log in as root, disable my graphical interface (telinit 3) and load it again (telinit 5) and then it loads. If I just press alt F7 to switch to my graphical environment before disabling it nothing happens. I´ve set the option in my boot options menu to boot into my graphical environment but it still does this. Can anyone please tell me how to fix this?

[loxy]

hi there
im a new to linux mandrake 2005. ive tried to change the int file in th root terminal but it wont let me as it says i dont have the permission. i want gnome to boot up all the time as it keeps on going to command line at the moment. can anyone help!!!

[eugrus]

So, what is your runlevel for default?
Is it 3 or 5?

If in /etc/inittab there is

id:3:initdefault:

write

id:5:initdefault:

instead of it!

[loxy]

ive already tried that, in gnome but it will not let me change it, says i dont have thefile permission

[loxy]

u need to go into the autologin menu through the control centre > boot up settings.

feel really dump now!

thanks everyone for reading

[eugrus]

ive already tried that, in gnome but it will not let me change it, says i dont have thefile permission

login as root

[Shifty]

Yeah I already tried it, my settings in /etc/inittab says id:5:initdefault: that's what I can't figure out. Have any ideas?

[Kurtzweil]

Do the login as a normal user, then run kde, go to menu/system/configuration/"configure your computer", put your root password, in control center go to boot, then go to the part that says automatic login, there you can configure what i think you are looking for.