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Re: inittab and graphical login



Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

hello all!

i use debian woody 3.0

my inittab reads like this:

# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

i thought with this, i will get a text login. but i always end-up in gdm!!

how do i stop this? i will like to have text login prompt.


One of the last scripts in /etc/rc2.d will be something like S99gdm. You can:

* apt-get remove gdm

* add "exit 0" as the first executable line of S99gdm

* rename S99gdm to something like NoS99gmd

* delete S99gmd (it's a symlink to /etc/init.d/gdm)

or

* rename/delete the actual script (/etc/init.d/gdm)


Alternatively, once in gdm, you can Ctrl-Alt-F1 to the first virtual console, and as root kill the gdm process (either by killing the appropriate process ID, or by running "/etc/init.d/gdm stop"), which of course won't affect things the next boot.


Kent




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