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by emillon 4802 days ago
> the X server won't start until runlevel 5

I don't think that the runlevel numbers are sequential. You can switch between levels (and that corresponds to more or less services running) but you pretty much boot directly to runlevel 5.

Within a runlevel, services are ordered, though (either by an arbitrary integer or by dependency).