Login screen problem,Plz help me

[dissel]

Hi,
I am noob in Opensuse as well as Linux world & this forum too.
As you see this my first post here.

Last week I first install Open SUSE 10.2 from a Comp Magazine's companion DVD, all things are just work fine...until yesterday, due to my excessive curiosity is almost killing my SUSE installation.

I install/uninstall some program and after that my SUSE start at CLI mode and every time I need the command 'startx' to get the GUI (KDE).
I can't get the Login screen.

When I want to turn off...and click the 'Logout' only one option is there i,e "End Current Session".
It return to the CLI mode and then from there I can turn off the system.

Where in normal many option available there like shutdown,restart ....etc ...etc.

I strongly belive there is a way directly log in to the X.....i,e login screen.
So what is command/procedure to start X window system and Login in GUI mode ?

[devils casper]

Hi dissel,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

log in as root and open /etc/inittab file. look for line

id:3:initdefault:

replace it wirh

id:5:initdefault:

save file and reboot.





Casper

[dissel]

Here is the file

#
# /etc/inittab
#
# Copyright (c) 1996-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved.
#
# Author: Florian La Roche, 1996
# Please send feedback to http://www.suse.de/feedback
#
# This is the main configuration file of /sbin/init, which
# is executed by the kernel on startup. It describes what
# scripts are used for the different run-levels.
#
# All scripts for runlevel changes are in /etc/init.d/.
#
# This file may be modified by SuSEconfig unless CHECK_INITTAB
# in /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig is set to "no"
#

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

# First script to be executed, if not booting in emergency (-b) mode
si::bootwait:/etc/init.d/boot

# /etc/init.d/rc takes care of runlevel handling
#
# runlevel 0 is System halt (Do not use this for initdefault!)
# runlevel 1 is Single user mode
# runlevel 2 is Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
# runlevel 3 is Full multiuser with network
# runlevel 4 is Not used
# runlevel 5 is Full multiuser with network and xdm
# runlevel 6 is System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)
#
l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
#l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6

# what to do in single-user mode
ls:S:wait:/etc/init.d/rc S
~~:S:respawn:/sbin/sulogin

The line is there

[devils casper]

initdefault is set to 5 already. did you edit it?

[dissel]

^^^
No, I first heard from you and went to check it.

May I post the rest of the file ?

[devils casper]

inittab file is correct. post the contents of menu.lst file.

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

[dissel]

Here is the file

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Mar 9 11:16:40 IST 2007
default 2
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (fd0)+1

title Kernel-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/sda8 vga=0x317 resume=/d
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
/

[dissel]

Ok

I watched carefully when it boot it...
here are the lines
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
opensusue login: reached (prompt in white color)
Failed services in runlevel 5: network
skipped services in runlevel 5: irq_balancer nfs smbs

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++