[olug] startx / init 5 hangs, ctrl-alt Fx doesn't work

Kevin sharpestmarble at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 21:33:00 UTC 2009


Can you boot into runlevel 3? Then one by one start the services in
the order that init would start them? That should tell you what
service is causing the hang.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 15:29, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a Fedora 10 box in which i have Sugar, gnome, and KDE installed.
> And tried to change the gui keybindings to be more useful,
> startx and init5 hangs with the dots spinning around the mouse pointer.
>
> Unfortunately, sshd must not be enabled and attempting to get to a
> ctrl-alt Fx virtual terminal fails.
>
> i will enable sshd on next reboot but Any suggestions welcome.
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