Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:00:27 +1000
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:22:21 -0700
> Richard E Miles <r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to start ubuntu feisty faun and have it run at run level 3 rather than starting on the X server. Is there a way to have it start at run level 3.
> 
> On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, X runs in runlevel 2 , and
> there is no distinction between this and running without X.
> 
> > I am new to ubuntu. My previous distro was Centos 4.5. On that system there was an /etc/inittab to set the start up run level. But on ubuntu this file does not exist. I would greatly appreciate any help on this issue.
> 
> There are several ways to make the system boot to a tty prompt without
> starting X. The most direct way is to edit the file
> 
>  /etc/X11/default-display-manager 
> 
> and comment out the "/usr/sbin/gdm" or equivalent "kdm" line . Substitute
> "false" without quotes. You could also simply clobber it with
> 
> echo "false" | sudo tee /etc/X11/default-display-manager     
> 
> :-)
> 
> Alternatively, if you are sure you will never need gdm/kdm , you can
> uninstall either or both.
> 
> It is possible to customise your runlevels, but, as you say, /etc/inittab
> no longer exists in Feisty, so how that would be done I don't personally
> know. The above is easier anyway, and easily reversible.
> 
> Peter
> 

Thank you so much for your help. I commented out the call to gdm
Then but in the line /bin/false.
This did exactly what I wanted it to do. :)


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Richard Miles
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