I am using kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.2 (latest upgrade) on a new box.
Since removing several gnome applications (one of which was gdm) the
startup/boot sequence will no longer take me to a graphical login screen
and load kde. It seems to fail on kinit. The message (copied by hand) is
roughly
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid.[big number here] = cev(8,6)
kinit: trying to resume from uuid.......
kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot...
ubuntu 8.10 pine-kub tty1
pine-kub login
not starting K Display Manager (kdm-kde4): it is not the default d.m.
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I have chosen kdm for my display manager and *is* the default AFAICT.
the uuid is accurate AFAICT. i.e. it exists at /dev/disk/by-uuid