Problem with GUI after/during login

[h2009]

Hi there,
I'm having an issue with my Fedora setup since doing some updating to a program on there.

Basically now, when ever the system starts and I normally would be asked to login, that screen is now black with a spinning ball showing its constantly loading.
If I leave it, it will never move on from that point.

So I ran the following command from ssh login: Set runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab
and then restarted the system to use startx. Upon using startx, the GUI loads fine. But if I set the run level back to 5, the GUI fails to load again.

Can anyone think of why this is occurring?

Thank you.

 

[mynsa]

Have you checked /var/log/messages for anything relevant during the end of the boot process?

You can also press ctrl + alt + f3/4/5/6/7 for a shell, might be worth a go logging in as root, and type ps faux to get a list of processes to get an idea of what the system is doing, also check dmesg for any output relating to your problems.

 

[Djwayne]

check what is running at run level 5 and not at 3 which could be causing the issue

chkconfig --list

Guessing whatever you updated is trying to start at run level 5 and faceplanting itself but is not running when u startx in run level 3.