[Techtalk] Gnome

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:47:14PM +0100, Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:01:43AM -0000, Rain wrote:
>  
> > Can someone please tell me how to stop my computer from booting straight into the graphical login, I like to boot into the text login.
> > 
> > I use Debian (latest version), it was fine untill i had a power failure, after that i had to fix errors on the filesystem to get it to boot again. Now everything works but i have this prob with the login.
> 
> 
> As far as I know, Debian's default runlevel is 2, so if you haven't 
> changed the value /etc/inittab to something else, you should have a 
> look in /etc/rc2.d/ . If you see something there called S99xdm, 
> (which is the X display manager), rename it to K99xdm and next 
> time you reboot, you should be presented with a nice friendly prompt.

If you have kgm, gdm, or xdm installed, you go directly to runlevel 5
on Debian. So the default runlevel is different if you have one of
them installed. And you cannot have more than one installed, because
apt-getting one of them will remove the others.

If you know you never want to use the graphical login, you can:

apt-get remove xdm

(or gdm, or kdm) as root.

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