Upgrade to edgy: kdm or gdm doesn't start automatically

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Apr 17 12:47:27 UTC 2007


Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:02 +0100, marc wrote:
>> I found that by removing "quiet splash" from the grub entry that kdm
>> will run automatically. It also runs with "splash" only, which
>> reconfigures things to the dapper setup, which is what I wanted. So
>> there appears to be something wrong with the "quiet" option.
> 
> My grub entry for the default kernel follows below. I notice now that I
> have a quiet option on the kernel line and another one further down. I
> have no clue what this means, but my gdm comes up automatically :)

"quiet" only turns off the majority of the console output.  I have it on my
default grub entry, and off on my single-user mode boot, and it makes no
difference to kdm starting.
-- 
derek





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