Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X

[Leszek Koltunski]

I once again purged gdm, tried to 'startx' as a normal user 'leszek' - no 
success. For a brief moment I get to see this gray screen with the 
hourglass, but after some ~1/2 a second X server exits.

I added another normal user and 'startx' - no problems.

I added gdm back in - it was complaining that /var/lib/gdm already exists, 
and it gave some other warning, and voilla, once again I could log onto X 
as 'leszek'.

It really looks like all this has something to do with the fact that I had 
'leszek' set to be the 'auto-login username' in gdm's settings.