CentOS - May 2007 - Another CentOS 5 oddity: reboot and the X server fails tocome up

> I had to reboot my work machine today, and it came up in text mode
> (!).  I did an init 5, but that had no effect (wrong command?).  I
> killed the three gdm processes, and voila, X server mode.
> 
> Where do I look to find out what is not right here?
My server comes up in run-level 5 but I have to hit ctrl-alt-f7 to
switch to the x-server screen.  It doesn't switch to it automatically
for some reason.  Once I've changed to the graphical virtual screen
everything else seems to work normally.

>> I had to reboot my work machine today, and it came up in text mode
>> (!).  I did an init 5, but that had no effect (wrong command?).  I
>> killed the three gdm processes, and voila, X server mode.
>>
>> Where do I look to find out what is not right here?
>
> My server comes up in run-level 5 but I have to hit ctrl-alt-f7 to
> switch to the x-server screen.  It doesn't switch to it automatically
> for some reason.  Once I've changed to the graphical virtual screen
> everything else seems to work normally.
This was happening to me when I was using Xen. When I stopped using the
Xen kernel it stopped happening. Not sure how the two are connected.

Preston