gutsy no longer booting into gnome

[Donald Raikes]

Rich,

Thanks that did it. I can boot into gnome fine now.
Odd that gdm disappeared, but computers and I have this kind of
relationship things go wrong for no apparent reason :)


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:49 -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> 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.
> 
>