gutsy no longer booting into gnome
Rich Rudnick
rich at aphroneo.net
Tue Apr 15 01:49:02 UTC 2008
Donald Raikes wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
>
sudo apt-get install gdm . Very strange that you lost it.
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