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RE: System crashes for no apparent reason



>
> But how would i start it without X?
>
> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's
> already some kind of gui there.
>

You could try something like this to kill X from starting

mv S04xdm s04xdm (depending on whether you use gdm or xdm of course :)


then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway



> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: System crashes for no apparent reason
> From: dan.hitt@gmail.com
> To: karl.jorgensen@nice.com
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen
> <karl.jorgensen@nice.com> wrote:
>
> > An experiment which may exclude the video drivers from the equation:
> > Try NOT starting X ?  If it still crashes without X ever being
> > started, then it points towards the problem being elsewhere...
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> A real dumb question for you:
>
> I also have a sort of crashey/freezey system (although presumably not
> exactly the same as Marc's).
>
> But how would i start it without X?
>
> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's
> already some kind of gui there.
>
> I don't suppose there's some kind of boot option i can set because
> X runs on top of the kernel, but i suppose that somewhere, somehow
> i can tell the system that the next time it comes up to not bring up X?
>
> TIA for any info.
>
> dan
>
>
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