[ale] RH6: Switch to tty0 & back to Xwin

[smnoldelinux at mediaone.net]

Interesting.  I'm running Red Hat 6.0, but my ps aux looks like this:

scott     1084  0.0  1.1  1656  744 tty3     S    16:31   0:00 sh
/usr/X11R6/bin
scott     1091  0.0  1.1  2224  756 tty3     S    16:31   0:00 xinit
/etc/X11/xi
root      1092 22.1 11.5 12540 7288 ?        S    16:31  22:17
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xw
scott     1624  0.0  0.6  1148  392 pts/2    S    18:11   0:00 grep X

In my /etc/inittab file at the end....
# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

The same as yours.  However, are your listed processes zombies??  My
preference is to boot into level 3 and then go to 5 when needed.  Is
your /etc/fstab corrupt?

Assuming you're using Red Hat, run linuxconf in text mode and
pseudo-edit the users.  I accidently hosed my normal user by chmod'ing
my home directory which wouldn't let me back in except as root (since I
didn't hose that, too).  linuxconf will check the user directories for
proper permissions (thanks red hat!) and prompt you to correct them.

I too, am curious to know why your setup is doing weird things.

- Scott

Mike Nolan wrote:
> 
> (After re-reading all this, I bet you guys are saying "Boy, what an
> Idiot!!!" Is there anybody local here in Atlanta that I can bring this
> thing to so you could show me some stuff, ...I could like, paint your house
> or something,  I *know* how to do that.)
> 
> Because I didn't know to use Ctrl-Alt-F7, I did "shutdown -r now" thinking
> the machine would come back up in X.
> 
> It doesn't, but comes up back to a terminal login, however, when I log in
> as root, I can't change to any directory, it's like I'm a user named "root"
> with no directories that I can change to.
> 
> It looks like they don't exist from *wherever* I am.  So I can't (or don't
> know how to) load any files into an editor and look at them to see what
> they contain.  I can't even get to /etc/inittab to see what's in it.
> 
> Eric Z. Ayers (and others) wrote:
> 
> >Usually, it's Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the graphics window.
> 
> This does nothing now...  :-(
> 
> smnoldelinux at mediaone.net wrote:
> >From your root login, you can do a
> >ps ax|grep X and see your X session still running.
> 
> yields:
> 638 ?        S         0:00  /ect/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 778 ?        S         0:00  /ect/X11/prefdm -nodadmon
> 
> Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
> >ps -aux ought to tell you whether or not X is really running.
> 
> This gives me a big list of stuff that seems to be running...
> 
> I don't know what line to look at to see if X is running :-(
> 
> Mike \n;
> Dallas, GA