I want no GDM at startup

[Tom H]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sascha Effert <fermat at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>
> I am getting crazy... I have a ubuntu server 10.10 and installed xubuntu-desktop on top of it. Now I would like to get rid of gdm, so it shall not be started whe I boot the machine. Following what I found at google I called:
>
> root at ubuntu-base:~# sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>  Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/gdm ...
> root at ubuntu-base:~#
>
> But on next boot gdm is started again.

GDM's an upstart job so "update-rc.d..." doesn't affect it.

Comment out the "start on" lines in "/etc/init/gdm.conf" or add "text"
to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" in "/etc/default/grub" and run
"update-grub".