I want no GDM at startup

[Tom H]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Shaun Jones <mister.s.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Can't you just change the runlevel ?

No.

But my two suggestions amount to the same thing.