>> 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
>
I checked the link and it's ok. My /etc/init.d/gdm looks like:
http://users.cooptel.net/simbobo/uploads/gdm
> Also check your runlevel, which you can find in /etc/inittab,
> looking something like this:
>
> # The default runlevel.
> id:2:initdefault:
>
>
Yes, that's correct. Runlevel displays
N 2
I don't know what the N refers to...
Any more ideas?
Owain Clarke
