Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure DNS is working properly. For some reason, Xorg and/or GDM > has a problem starting up if networking is unavailable and/or DNS > lookups can't be performed. That's interesting. Do you know of anything in part

Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 16:45 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:49:48 -0700 > Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Make sure DNS is working properly. For some reason, Xorg and/or GDM > > has a problem starting up if networking is unavailable and/or DNS > > lookups can't

Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure DNS is working properly. For some reason, Xorg and/or GDM > has a problem starting up if networking is unavailable and/or DNS > lookups can't be performed. My first attempt to reply to this seems to have van

Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 10/1/07, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I moved it to another location on Saturday afternoon and, again, it booted up > and worked fine. > > It was rebooted this morning and now the graphical login screen doesn't > appear. Everything appears to load normally but once the text login scre

Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:22:26 -0400 Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you recently update (or reboot to) a new kernel? I did a kernel update on Friday night, but it worked fine on Saturday. > Are you using any > 3rd party drivers like the nvidia proprietary driver, or the ATI > drivers?

Re: [CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On 10/1/07, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what could be going wrong and preventing the graphical login screen from > loading? Did you recently update (or reboot to) a new kernel? Are you using any 3rd party drivers like the nvidia proprietary driver, or the ATI drivers? -- During t

[CentOS] X login screen fails on the first try

2007-10-01 Thread Frank Cox
I set up a Centos 5 machine a couple of weeks ago and everything was working perfectly. It survived a few reboots and whatnot with no problem. I moved it to another location on Saturday afternoon and, again, it booted up and worked fine. It was rebooted this morning and now the graphical login s