[ubuntu-uk] No login screen when booting

[David King]

Thanks for your help, it worked perfectly.


David



Martin Meredith wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 01:40:41PM +0000, David King wrote:
>   
>> I set up a virtual machine in Virtual Box for Ubuntu 8.04. I also 
>> installed into that the Kubuntu desktop. When it booted it had the kdm 
>> login screen, but I could log in to Gnome okay. When I looked at the 
>> Services list, I deselected kdm (gdm was selected) and then the GUI 
>> disappeared and I had to reboot the virtual machine. When I log in to it 
>> now, I get no login screen, just a command prompt asking me to login. I 
>> do so and then type "sudo gdm" and the normal gdm login screen appears 
>> and I can login normally using that.
>>
>> But how do I get it back to having the gdm login screen appear 
>> automatically is it normally would on any Ubuntu installation?
>>     
>
> First, make sure that gdm is selected in services
>
> Then, run the command
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
>
> and then select "gdm" when you're asked what you want as the default login 
> manager :D 
>
> Restart, et voila!
>