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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

I did a sorcery system-update that recast gdm2 and xdm, but xdm must 
have been second and was the default login. I have since recast gdm2 and 
it works fine. I'm starting to understant the new init system a bit 
more. Thanks for that.

Cheers, Duane.

Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

> 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?
>
>