disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/05/13 16:08, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 06/05/13 03:32, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Kevin Wilson
> <wkevils at gmail.comwrote:
>>>> I tried recovery mode, I could enter to it, but I couldn't delete
>>>> lightdm.override as it is read only when in recovery mode.
>>> You can remount "/" with "mount -o remount,rw ...".
>> But I think that you need to be a level #1 in order to do this.
> What do you mean with "you need to be a level #1"? If you select "root"
> in recovery mode, you are at a root shell where you can type the given
> command. Then the root file system will be remounted rw (if possible).
> There is no special skill needed (except knowing the command). Another
> option to get the root file system remounted rw would be to choose the
> option "network", where you will be warned that the root file system
> will get remounted rw and other file systems will get mounted also
> according to /etc/fstab.
>
>
> Nils

I admit that I haven't been following the thread too closely and the 
significance of the "recovery mode" escaped me for the reason that I 
have never had to resort to "recovery mode".

I would simply boot my system in the normal manner but at the grub menu 
I would enter "init 1" on the boot command line and would then be taken 
to user level #1 where I would issue the command, as root, "mount -o 
remount, ro /dev/sdXy" (followed by "e2fsck /dev/sdXy" to have the file 
system checked, which was the only time I ever used this procedure).

BC

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