Re: How to start gdm by default

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

HI,

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:22:12AM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to start gdm by default on one of my boxes, which is currently 
> booting into text mode.
> 
> I do have gdm installed:
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep gdm 
> ii  gdm            2.20.11-4      GNOME Display Manager
> 
> It's still activated as the bootup service:
> 
> % update-rc.d gdm defaults
> gdm already in /etc/runlevel.conf: No change.
> 
> $ grep gdm /etc/runlevel.conf
> 01      0,1,6   -               /etc/init.d/gdm
> 30      -       2,3,4,5         /etc/init.d/gdm

This means you are using file-rc package.

Is this your intentional choice?  If you are using sysv-rc, you should
be changing symlink in /etc/rc2.d/ for reconfiguration.