Description of Problem: Run level 5 fail to bring up X simply because eth0 is not activated. With my dhcp'ing host on my switched network, sometime eth0 doesn't get activated at boot time. This has happened before with RHL 7.2, without problems. The work around is to log in as root, bring up eth0 with the ifup command, then type: init 3; sleep 2; init 5 If you think this might be lookback related, my /etc/hosts file has only one line in it: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [joshua@thunderbird joshua]$ rpm -qa | egrep "kernel|XFree|NVIDIA" kernel-2.4.18-0.13 XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2802 XFree86-libs-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-twm-4.2.0-6.52 NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2802 XFree86-tools-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-devel-4.2.0-6.52 kernel-source-2.4.18-0.13 XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-6.52 XFree86-xdm-4.2.0-6.52
This sounds to me like network misconfiguration, and not an X bug. I am able to start X up on my test box with no network interfaces other than lo up.