Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 9 Jun, Andrew J Fortune wrote about "Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes..." > > > > I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to > > a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was > > wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? .... this is not > > normally a problem, but I am trying to resolve other problems associated > > with startx and file resolution....and this is not allowing me to test some > > things. > > > > Sounds like xdm is installed and thus starting up as the system boots. > Probably the easist thing to do is remove the xdm package. Use > dselect, apt or dpkg. > > As root issue the command: > > dpkg --remove xdm > > If you don't wan't remove it but just disable it, as root issue the > command: > > update-rc.d -f xdm remove > > This will remove the xdm links in /etc/rc[2-5].d that point to the > /etc/init.d/xdm script. Then at a later date when you want xdm to start > back up, issue: > > update-rc.d xdm defaults 99 01 > > > I have heard that in order to have a text console at login, you have to set > > the initdefault action to 3 in the file /etc/inittab. However, it is already > > set to 3, but Linux still is presenting me with the graphical login ! > > I think this pertains to RedHat. Debian by default does not have a > non-X run-level. I think a proposal has been submitted to have this > changed though. If you want to you can just manually delete the S99xdm > symlink from /etc/rc2.d and have inittab us run-level 2 as the default. > > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mechanical Engineering servis@purdue.edu > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null Or it could be login.app/wdm/kdm - dpkg --remove login.app wdm kdm frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761
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