>> 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. This was happening to me when I was using Xen. When I stopped using the Xen kernel it stopped happening. Not sure how the two are connected. Preston