Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] gdm and init.d

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] gdm and init.d
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:51:29 +0200

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?

--
Arwed v. Merkatz
Grimoire Guru for video
Grimoire Guru for xfce
Sourcemage GNU/Linux
http://www.sourcemage.org




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page