Re: Please help me!! I've posted this question 5 other places now, with not a single response!!

[James Simons <jsimons ntinet com>]

Someone earlier helped me the startx command, which allowed me to get in 
and fix the problem.. Thanks for the answer though...Any ideas on the 
editing startup thread I just started?

Carsten Menke wrote:

> James Simons wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
>
> > Additionally, I decided to install RH 7.2 on  my system that I have at
> > home.  During boot up, it connects to Road Runner through my NIC and
> > gets a ip address.  When it does get an ip address it won't take me into
> > GNOME wither.  It says c login: and when I do log in I am root c   When
> > the NIC doesn't get an ip from road runner (unplugged the cable) I
> > bypass the command prompt and go into GNOME.  This is really getting
> > frustrating ;-)
>
> Hmmh, could not help you, that GNOME doesn't work when you are connected
> to the net, but I could
> tell you that you should do always a "startx" (without the quotes of
> course) or even try,
> "gnome-session", this should normally bring you into Gnome.
>
> Carsten