Upgrade to edgy: kdm or gdm doesn't start automatically

After a bit of effort to complete the upgrade of packages -
noted 
elsewhere - I'm nearly there. However, when I boot via grub
to:

  Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17.-11-generic [1]

things proceed as expected, with the splash screen, but then
I'm dumped 
into the command line (tty1). There's no error message on
screen to 
indicate a problem.

>From there I can login and can run startx or kdm (or
gdm). I can't alt-
f7, although I can alt-fn where n=1..8

I've tried 

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

but that doesn't result in any change, although it says it
has  
succeeded. Ditto gdm.

Also, when dumped to tty1, I can 

  ps -e|grep kdm

and see that kdm is *not* running, although this is expected
by ref to 
init.d, etc.

Any ideas worth a try would be appreciated. 

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On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:22 +0100, marc wrote:
> After a bit of effort to complete the upgrade of
packages - noted 
> elsewhere - I'm nearly there.

Hey, good to hear!

> However, when I boot via grub to:
> 
>   Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17.-11-generic [1]

First of all, the current kernel in Feisty is
linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic. 


> things proceed as expected, with the splash screen, but
then I'm dumped 
> into the command line (tty1). There's no error message
on screen to 
> indicate a problem.

Just to be sure: you did ensure that the metapackages
ubuntu-minimal,
ubuntu-standard, and at least one of  ubuntu-desktop,
kubuntu-desktop,
or xubuntu-desktop ist installed, right?
And the system is up to date,  "sudo aptitude update
&& sudo aptitude
dist-upgrade" does nothing, right?

Please paste the output of

who -r (this should show your current runlevel)

And then the output of

ls -l /etc/rc2.d (assuming that your runlevel is 2)


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On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:22 +0100, marc wrote:
> Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17.-11-generic [1]

My bad, please ignore that port of my other mail, I forgot
that you were
upgrading to to Edgy, not Feisty


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Mario Vukelic said...
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:22 +0100, marc wrote:
> > After a bit of effort to complete the upgrade of
packages - noted 
> > elsewhere - I'm nearly there.
> 
> Hey, good to hear!
> 
> > However, when I boot via grub to:
> > 
> >   Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17.-11-generic [1]
> 
> First of all, the current kernel in Feisty is
> linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic. 

As you noted later, I'm moving to edgy not feisty.
> 
> > things proceed as expected, with the splash
screen, but then I'm dumped 
> > into the command line (tty1). There's no error
message on screen to 
> > indicate a problem.
> 
> Just to be sure: you did ensure that the metapackages
ubuntu-minimal,
> ubuntu-standard, and at least one of  ubuntu-desktop,
kubuntu-desktop,
> or xubuntu-desktop ist installed, right?

Yes.

> And the system is up to date,  "sudo aptitude
update && sudo aptitude
> dist-upgrade" does nothing, right?

Yes.

> Please paste the output of
> 
> who -r (this should show your current runlevel)

run-level 2

I'd be terrified if was anything else!
 
> And then the output of
> 
> ls -l /etc/rc2.d (assuming that your runlevel is 2)
 
Looks okay, but I'm on another machine at the moment, and
the laptop is 
not on this network, so I can't copy the results. (Email is
also down on 
it because courier needs reconfiguring due to the previous
issue!)

I found that by removing "quiet splash" from the
grub entry that kdm 
will run automatically. It also runs with "splash"
only, which 
reconfigures things to the dapper setup, which is what I
wanted. So 
there appears to be something wrong with the
"quiet" option.

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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:02 +0100, marc wrote:
> I found that by removing "quiet splash" from
the grub entry that kdm 
> will run automatically. It also runs with
"splash" only, which 
> reconfigures things to the dapper setup, which is what
I wanted. So 
> there appears to be something wrong with the
"quiet" option.

My grub entry for the default kernel follows below. I notice
now that I
have a quiet option on the kernel line and another one
further down. I
have no clue what this means, but my gdm comes up
automatically 

title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root            (hd0,7)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic 
root=UUID=7739cef9-3b3d-4f8f-b8ed-ecbe1338ba3a ro quiet
splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault



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Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:02 +0100, marc wrote:
>> I found that by removing "quiet splash"
from the grub entry that kdm
>> will run automatically. It also runs with
"splash" only, which
>> reconfigures things to the dapper setup, which is
what I wanted. So
>> there appears to be something wrong with the
"quiet" option.
> 
> My grub entry for the default kernel follows below. I
notice now that I
> have a quiet option on the kernel line and another one
further down. I
> have no clue what this means, but my gdm comes up
automatically 

"quiet" only turns off the majority of the console
output.  I have it on my
default grub entry, and off on my single-user mode boot, and
it makes no
difference to kdm starting.
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