grub issue

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark
> <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 4:  what happens when you type "telinit 5"?
>
>   FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally.  They
> normally boot to runlevel 2, and use a service to start/stop an X
> display manager.  So, I think the equivalent command would be:
>
>         /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
>   I could be wrong, this is from memory, and I haven't used Ubuntu in
> a while, either.  IIRC, Ubuntu replaced the standard SysV init with
> some new thing, and it may not even have initscripts anymore.

  Ubuntu migrated to upstart.  However, init scripts are still generally linked.

  sudo /ewtc/init.d/gdm restart

  This still works, but gives you a little nastygram saying you should
really be doing it via (several ways):

  sudo service gdm restart
  sudo restart gdm

-- 
-- Thomas