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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