gutsy no longer booting into gnome

Donald Raikes don at draikes.com
Tue Apr 15 00:29:24 UTC 2008


Rich,

when I tried 
sudo invoke-rc.d gdm start

I got a message saying that /etc/init.d/gdm was not found

I pasted the output of my Xorg.0.log file to:

http://paste.stgraber.org/2458



On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:10 -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > Can you provide us with the output of the runlevel command?
> > 
> > On 4/15/08, *Donald Raikes* <don at draikes.com <mailto: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.
> 
> Runlevels have no effect on X in ubuntu/debian, gdm is started in levels 
> 2-5.
> 
> Try typing sudo invoke-rc.d gdm start  on the command line. If the gui 
> doesn't start up, provide a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log .
> 
> You can install pastebinit , and type   cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | 
> pastebinit . After a few seconds, you will get back a url of a webpage 
> to which it was pasted.
> 
> 





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