gutsy no longer booting into gnome

Donald Raikes don at draikes.com
Tue Apr 15 00:04:24 UTC 2008


Edward,
I ran sudo init 5 then rebooted.
I still got booted into the console not the graphical interface.

It is not a big deal because I can always type startx to get into the
graphical interface, just annoying not to know how I broke it and how to
fix it :-)


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:48 -0600, Edward Dunagin wrote:
> hi Don, type init 5. that should do it. if not,come back for further.
> Peace.................ed
> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Donald Raikes <don at draikes.com> wrote:
> > the runlevel shows:
> >  N 2
> >
> >  which I suspect is not correct :)
> >  I know how to set it on a redhat-based system but not on a debian-based
> >  system.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:36 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Can you provide us with the output of the runlevel command?
> >  >
> >  > On 4/15/08, Donald Raikes <don at draikes.com> wrote:
> >  >         Hello,
> >  >
> >  >         I installed gutsy onto my harddrive on Saturday. As of mid
> >  >         morning
> >  >         today, when I rebooted my computer, gutsy booted into the
> >  >         console rather
> >  >         than the graphical interface.
> >  >
> >  >         I have no idea why or what has changed, but I would like to
> >  >         get the
> >  >         system back to bootin into the graphical interface.
> >  >
> >  >         Any suggestions welcome :-)
> >  >
> >  >         Don Raikes
> >  >
> >  >
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