Asim Jamshed wrote:

Hi,

I recently installed xfree86 and kde in my computer. On booting the
machine, it failed to start the xserver and hence xdm/kdm. I have
changed the init level to 5 from /etc/inittab but I cant figure out
which soft links I have to add in the rc5.d directory in order to
start the GUI.



If you have installed xdm or kdm (or gdm or wdm), it'll automagically install the appropriate links in /etc/rc2.d; there's no reason to change your default run level to 5 (2 through 5 are the same on Debian by default; you as the sysadmin have the control to make those different).

If xdm/kdm is not starting when 2 is your normal runlevel, something's broken.

P.S. The GUI runs when I execute startx followed by kde.bin from the
kde2 directory once I log in thru command line user interface.




What do you mean "startx followed by kde.bin"?

If you run "startx", it should start X along with the default window manager/environment, or whatever you've specified in "~/.xinitrc" and/or "~.xsession".

Perhaps you're starting X with "startx", and once you're in, you're opening a terminal and then starting KDE with the "kde.bin" command. (I don't find such a "kde.bin" on my system, but then I'm not running such an old version of X. Woody is ancient; you might want to consider upgrading to Testing or Sid, if this is a workstation rather than a server, which is semi-implied since you're running X.)

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Kent


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