-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote: > > > > >I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of > > >gui. What am I supposed to do? > > > > IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' > > wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the > > GUI login splash from starting up. > > > > I thought that the gdm/kdm was run from a different runlevel that '2', > like '3'. > I've never used a dm so don't know. If so, couldn't you just edit the > initdefault line from 3 back to 2 and then do init q? > > Doug. Although many folks has come to expect what RH and others do -- provide different runlevels--Debian so far likes runlevels 2-5 to be setup the same and let a sysadmin change this if they want. Although various users and developers have asked for a change from time to time. so, the default is runlevel 2 and changing it will not make a differnece.
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