Ubuntu run level

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> > Try Runlevel 2. Runlevel 3 is the normal gui level for Debian systems.
>
> No, runlevel 2 is normal runlevel for Debian period. ?Now if you
> install X and an X manager, then you'll get your GUI in runlevel 2.
>
> Note that, of all the systems I recall, only RH Linux and Solaris run
> X out of inittab. ?OTOH, since I usually run GUI-less servers (AIX,
> HP-UX, among others), I may not have noticed.

David is correct.  If you want it to use runlevel 3, you must first 
create /etc/inittab and stick in it 

id:3:initdefault:

Otherwise, Ubuntu doesn't even have the file. 
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