[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 10.04, gdm and rc2.d

[E Frank Ball III]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:35:04PM -0700, E Frank Ball wrote:
 > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:27:09PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
 >  > I am trying out the beta2 of Ubuntu 10.04 and I notice that I don't see
 >  > a script such as S13gdm in the /etc/rc2.d directory.
 >  > 
 >  > Any ideas how the whole gnome starting process is initiated in this new
 >  > version of Ubuntu?
 >  > 
 >  > Mostly I want to know because I want to stop the automatic starting of X
 >  > but don't want to uninstall gdm to do that.
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks, Bob
 > 
 > It's started by /etc/init/gdm.conf
 > but I don't know how to disable it.


In /etc/default/grub there is a section:

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

If that doesn't work then I'd set (also in /etc/default/grub)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us