Thanks for the clarification. The meaning of runlevels is very distro-specific. In Debian (or, at least Ubuntu), Runlevels 2 through 5 are all extremely similar to one another, differing in things like whether apache or ntp-server are started. ?dm's run in all four of those runlevels.
Which is why I'm surprised that there's a difference when you reboot into runlevel 3: the only significant difference on my Edgy machine seems to be that /etc/rc2.d has starts for powernowd.early and stop- readahead. I take it then, that when you have the black screen, you can't even see a text cursor (with no text)? That it's completely black? Also, from your first description, it sounds like you're aware of at least some of the issues with your xorg.conf that were causing it to fail sometimes: could you describe that more, please? It's worth considering that this could /potentially/ be a failure of upstart to load up gettys on the various ttys... -- X server crash doesn't fall back to console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
