> I had to reboot my work machine today, and it came up in text mode > (!). I did an init 5, but that had no effect (wrong command?). I > killed the three gdm processes, and voila, X server mode. > > Where do I look to find out what is not right here? My server comes up in run-level 5 but I have to hit ctrl-alt-f7 to switch to the x-server screen. It doesn't switch to it automatically for some reason. Once I've changed to the graphical virtual screen everything else seems to work normally.