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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:33:35PM +1200, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a bit of trouble converting to the new init.d system. I had to 
> restart from a saved image of mine. I've sorted most out things out but 
> when I boot up and set the default runlevel to 5, gdm doesn't start. The 
> same happend is the default runlevel is 3 and I run "telinit switch 5". 
> However, if I run /usr/bin/gdm manually a login screen appears and 
> everything is OK. I can manage with this but I can see it becoming annoying.
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?
> 
> Thanks Duane.
 
Did you recast gdm/gdm2 so the new init script got installed?
What does 'telinit run gdm' tell you?

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