[TriLUG] Dumb Debian Question

[Mike Fieschko]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:34:59 -0500
"Brian Henning" <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:

> Hi Y'all,
>   After 5 hours of downloading packages (perhaps I chose unwisely...),
>   I 
> finally got to reboot my Debian Sarge install....and I can't figure
> out how to get X to start.  I feel really dumb, too, because I've done
> this before and got the graphical login and everything working as I
> expected it...  but I can't remember what, if any, special hoops I had
> to jump through.  There aren't any X respawning too fast-type error
> messages that I see... just no X.  Hints?  Allegations?  Things left
> unsaid?  erhh..  Anyway, thanks as always for the tips.

What happens when you do `startx`'?

If X doesn't start with `startx`, what's in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?

If you want a graphical login (xdm, gdm, kdm) on tty1 but you get a
console login, see if there's an rc[n].d directory under /etc with a
start script for xdm, gdm, etc.  /etc/rc2.d/ has S99xdm here on my
Debian box (sarge, sort of).

After you've found which runlevel has the start script, set that to be
the default runlevel in /etc/inittab.

Then do `init 2`, or whatever the new default runlevel is.  No reboot
needed.

Mike Fieschko
Raleigh, NC