getting the graphical login back

scabies · 10-04-2004, 04:17 PM

hi,

at some point i lost the capability to login graphically. i would like to get it back, just for the easier shutdown/reboot mechanism through X (being able to shutdown/reboot as non-root user).

as it is right now, i login, startx. logout of X, su -> root, and then reboot/halt.

i think this may have happened around the same time that i was disabling firewall services, but it happens with them enabled as well.

Thanks in advance!!
mike

secesh · 10-04-2004, 04:19 PM

did you change your default runlevel?

edit /etc/inittab

scabies · 10-04-2004, 04:47 PM

yep, that was exactly the problem. changing the line <code>id:3:initdefault:</code> to <code>id:5:initdefault:</code> did the trick.

not sure how that got changed, but thanks a lot!