[Feisty] Normal ways to kill xserver don't work

[Ari Torhamo]

su, 2007-03-18 kello 09:18 -0700, John L Fjellstad kirjoitti:

> No. As mentioned earlier, you (as an administrator) are supposed to be
> able to customize the different runlevels.  By default, Debian (and
> Ubuntu) uses runlevel 2.  This means it will run all the scripts in
> /etc/rcS.d
> /etc/rc1.d
> /etc/rc2.d
> /etc/rc6.d
> 
> So, if you want, you can create a runlevel without networking, one
> without X starting up at bootup etc
> 
> Of course, if you feel bad about it, you can always recreate the link
> after you are done.
> 
> Just make a note the number in front of the gdm (the same link should be
> in /etc/rc[2-5].d.  So, recreate the link like this:
> cd /etc/rc3.d
> sudo ln -s ../init.d/gdm S19gdm (or whatever the number is)
> 
> BTW, which video card are you using?


Sorry for taking so long to answer, but after I installed Nvidia
1.0-9755 driver my system wouldn't boot anymore (the driver worked until
the first reboot). I got an error message about some incompatible kernel
modules. Trying to boot with the previous kernel version didn't help.

Your suggestion of deleting /etc/rc3.d/S??gdm worked though, thanks. I
managed to boot to the recovery mode without x being started :-)

Now I have installed Feisty some tweleve times during the last few days
and filed a bug report about my problems. For now I'm just going to sit
with watery eyes in front of my 61 Hz monitor and wait for if someone
needs any additional input from me to fix the bug (or the lack of
support).

Thanks for your help

Ari