I'm also experiencing the same problem after installing grub2 and attempting to install some splash screens. I'm providing you with some output in the hope it can be resolved.
> To see if gdm is mis-registered, please provide the output from ls > /etc/rcS.d README S18ifupdown-clean S40pcmciautils S01glibc.sh S20module-init-tools S43portmap S02hostname.sh S20policycoreutils S44nfs-common S02mountkernfs.sh S26lvm2 S45mountnfs.sh S03splashy S30checkfs.sh S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh S03udev S30procps S50alsa-utils S04mountdevsubfs.sh S35mountall.sh S55bootmisc.sh S05bootlogd S36mountall-bootclean.sh S55urandom S07hdparm S36udev-mtab S70x11-common S08hwclockfirst.sh S37mountoverflowtmp S75sudo S10checkroot.sh S38pppd-dns S99stop-bootlogd-single S11hwclock.sh S39ifupdown S12mtab.sh S40networking > /etc/rc2.d/, assuming you are using the default runlevel 2. README S20debtorrent-client S26network-manager S05loadcpufreq S20debtorrent-tracker S26network-manager-dispatcher S05vbesave S20dirmngr S30gdm S10sysklogd S20exim4 S30system-tools-backends S11klogd S20festival S50alsa-utils S12acpid S20kde-guidance S50ntp S12dbus S20mplayer S50pcscd S14firebird S20nfs-common S89atd S17mysql-ndb-mgm S20openbsd-inetd S89cron S18mysql-ndb S20policycoreutils S99acpi-support S18portmap S20sysfsutils S99rc.local S19mysql S23ntp-server S99rmnologin S20bittorrent S24avahi-daemon S99stop-bootlogd S20cpufrequtils S24dhcdbd S20cupsys S24hal > Are you sure gdm i sthe default desktop manager? What is the content > of your /etc/X11/default-display-manager? more /etc/X11/default-display-manager /usr/bin/gdm If you need any more info let me know. Cheere, Vince. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel

