Gnome desktop fails to start after login

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 8/18/06, wjp. reg <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> Have you tried rebooting into init 3 and do the following:

The graphics system is started in every run level from 2 through 5.
The only run levels that do not run gdm (at priority 13) are 0 and 6.
Ubuntu is not configured as a Red Hat system is.  If you'd like to
have a run level where there is no graphical login, then you can
remove S13gdm from one of the relevant init directories, eg;
/etc/rc3.d.

If you'd like to stop the GUI on an already running system, you can
issue this command (from either a text console or a terminal window):

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

On a side note, the default runlevel for Ubuntu as installed is
runlevel 2 (as opposed to the customary runlevel 5 of Red Hat based
systems).

-- 
Chris

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