On 03/04/2008, Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > Since I last upgraded my Lenny box, both xdm and gdm silently fail to > start at boot time. > > Actually, something in each of their init scripts fails and they are > never actually called. you could type sh -x /etc/init.d/gdm start to see what gets executed, and maybe have a better idea of what causes the problem.