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gdm package

  1. Bug #431176
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 431176

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 431176] Re: karmic: gdm should not start in single user (recovery) mode

Beni Cherniavsky [2009-10-08 11:42 -0000]:
> It used to be, until recently (karmic bleeding edge), that I could boot the recovery option,
> do my stuff in single-user mode, and proceed to a graphical boot.
> But now, not only GDM doesn't run by itself, running it manually appears to have no effect!
> I'm forced to reboot in normal mode to get GDM.

"telinit 2" to change the runlevel doesn't work?

> And it's not clear that single-user "recovery" mode is a 1:1
> indication that a text-only mode is desired.

It traditionally behaved that way, and changes to this are way outside
of the scope of this bug report IMHO.

Martin
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