On Monday 04 Feb 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
>
> 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
You could try tracing through the script:
bash -x /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm start
and see what happens. It may be that gdm isn't set as the default
display manager for example.
Peter
