Re: [Hampshire] Xwindows

On Thursday 31 Jan 2008, Owain Clarke wrote:
> I had a kernel panic last week and since it's been sorted out x has
> no longer been autostarting. I log in at the prompt and "sudo gdm"
> brings everything back to normal so I thought that creating
> /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm would solve it, which it doesn't - obviously
> don't really understand the function of that directory. Any
> suggestions what to try next?
>
> Owain Clarke

The files in those directories are symlinks to /etc/init.d files (in
case that's not what you did). You can use one of various apps such
as sysv-rc-conf to handle the links via a gui or use

sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/gdm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm

to do it manually. If you already did that then it might be worth
looking in /etc/init.d/gdm to see if there's a variable acting as an
on/off switch.

ATB, Peter