Stephen R Laniel wrote: >On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:43:37PM +0100, jonny dennis wrote: > > >>Ive got a debian proxy running gnome, I commented out >>the line /usr/bin/gdm with a # then when i rebooted >>the machine it wont startx it just hangs and i have to >>go to another console and kill the process. can anyone >>help? any suggestions most apreciated >> >> > >Is there any reason why you wouldn't just uninstall all the >graphical stuff like gdm and kdm? If you're never going to >use those things, you can just do an > >sudo apt-get remove kdm gdm xserver-xfree86 > >and that will take care of a lot of that for you. (You end >up having to delete lots of other stuff, like OpenOffice or >whatnot, but the line above will get you started.) > >Now, to make sure that gdm or kdm don't run when you boot is >actually much easier. First install the rcconf package >(apt-get install rcconf), then 'sudo rcconf'. You'll see a >list of daemons that run when you boot. Among them is >probably gdm. Go down to that item on the list and make sure >that it's deselected; use the spacebar to deselect. > >It might be worthwhile to read about the /etc/rc*.d system >if you don't already know about it. Lots of daemons sit in >/etc/init.d/, and they get symlinked into /etc/rc*.d >depending upon where in the boot order they're supposed to >load. rcconf handles this symlinking for you. > >Cheers, >Steve > > > This maybe wakky, but simplier. Rename the /etc/init.d/gdm to whatever you like ( i.e. /etc/init.d/gdmnomore )
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