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

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:35:04PM -0700, E Frank Ball III 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us
> 

If you don't want X you might want to consider installing the server
version, as it doesn't include X by default and would save wasted space.  I
don't have a 10.04 beta2 machine in front of me right this minute, but if
you do open that /etc/init/gdm.conf file (it's an upstart script) you
should see some reference to "start on" something. That triggers the
upstart script and you should be able to just comment that out.

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