boot and runlevel problem

[jjones]

I just did a fresh install of FC6 on my home computer. The install went fine, but when I boot the system into runlevel 5, it gets to the login splash screen and then reboots. It does this in an endless cycle. I changed the default runlevel to 3, and everything boots fine. When I login and startx, that works normal as well. I am going to be using this computer as a headless server, so I would like to be able to VNC into it. Is there a way to do this with runlevel 3, or are there any suggestions as to what may be wrong with runlevel 5?

[bob]

Wondering if your monitor and graphics card are read properly? The first thing I'd check is 'system-config-display' and see if everything matches. For more info, I'd normally say to try 'dmesg' for the boot info, but since it's a loop, that's not going to give you good info. Perhaps /var/log/messages will give you clues.

[jjones]

Video card and monitor are detected and configured correctly. Checked dmesg and var/log/messages and nothing looked out of order, but I'm booting into runlevel 3 now. I'm going to change back to 5 and see what they say after they loop.

[jjones]

Okay, I just booted into runlevel 3. I logged in as root and did telinit 5. The system started x and when the login splash screen appeared, the system restarted. I checked the messages again, and it looks like it only logs from the reboot, which is into runlevel 3.

[jjones]

Here is what shows up in the log when I telinit 5.

Dec 10 21:39:53 LINUX-SERVER gdm[3133]: (null): cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
Dec 10 21:39:54 LINUX-SERVER kernel: [drm] writeback test failed
Dec 10 21:40:54 LINUX-SERVER syslogd 1.4.1: restart.

I did a yum remove GDM and then yum install GDM. After I was able to telinit 5 and the graphical login screen showed up. When I rebooted however I get the same loop. I have checked /etc/inittab, /etc/X11/prefdm, and /etc/sysconfig/desktop against my laptops files and they all look the same.

[bob]

Someone may come up with a quick solution for you, but I'd sure file a bugzilla on it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi