Comments on: Howto Boot debian in text mode instead of graphical mode (GUI)

By: CrazyA

CrazyA — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:16:57 +0000

Marco: Thank you very much. I finaly got back home so I could try it, and it works like a charm!

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:10:50 +0000

CrazyA, I solved it. You need to open the /etc/default/grub file, locate the following line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash text" and don’t forget to run ‘update-grub’ afterwards to update.

By: CrazyA

CrazyA — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:59:27 +0000

Marco: I had exactly the same thing. For now, I’ll just deal with it and leave it eating up resources while it shouldn’t…

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:28:32 +0000

I tried to run “update-rc.d -f gdm remove” as root but didn’t have any effect, on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit: the computer still boot in graphical mode.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:43:27 +0000

Hi All, but really I’m confised reading all that post on this thread, was looking to only remove permanently the gui start-up from my Debian and get a lot of misleading information. Even after trying undate-rc.d gdm remove I get the following output: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/gdm exist during rc.d purge (use -f to force)

So what’s that?
Sure I have to reboot to see what happen after my first attempt to get gui startup out.
Maybe after someone will give a short and clear statement to this post, other can really get usefully info.

Thanks

By: Ayekat

Ayekat — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:10:51 +0000

Why not just:
apt-get remove gdm
???

Then it is gone for good!

Sorry, I’m probably just some newbie speaking bad english, but everytime I remove Gnome, GDM or even just Epiphany, Debian tells me that a huuuuuuuuge amount of programs aren’t needed anymore.

And then, if I type apt-get autoremove, Debian starts removing every GUI component of the system.

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:35:50 +0000

Why not just:
apt-get remove gdm
???

Then it is gone for good!

By: valsj

valsj — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:08:42 +0000

nice. very helpful

By: acohen36

acohen36 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:00:46 +0000

mv /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm /etc/rc2.d/K70gdm

Yep, Sam Morris’s su easy edit works like a charm every time.
Also goes great together with the other ?dm’s kdm and xdm

By: Delian Krustev

Delian Krustev — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:17:18 +0000

Reading a headline like this could made someone believe debian is more user friendly than ubuntu .. I think it is more appropriate to set the title to:

How stupid should I be to make a machine start directly in X .. especially in debian ?

“The correct way to disable a service (such as GDM) from being started in a given runlevel (e.g., 2 which is Debian’s default runlevel) is like so:

mv /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm /etc/rc2.d/K70gdm

Further information can be found in /etc/rc2.d/README.”

Is it ? May be you should consult the manual page of update-rc.d ..

$ ls /etc | grep “^rc”
rc.local
$

How about /etc/rc2.d not existing at all ?

sysv-rc sucks the big time ..
If you want the states to be preserved you should replace sysv-rc with file-rc . Something everyone should do.

Just my 2 BOFH cents ..

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:45:12 +0000

Autologin:
you will want to apt-get remove gdm, kdm, xdm, wdm
and apt-get install rungetty afterwards open /etc/inittab and modify this line 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 to
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin $user

Now edit and to your /home/$user/.bash_profile

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
while [ 1 == 1 ]
do
startx
sleep 10
done
fi

By: mzilikazi

mzilikazi — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:55:42 +0000

There is a nifty tool called rcconf that can manage run level symlinks for you. Using this tool it is not required to enter each rc*.d dir and manually rename a symlink. It speeds things up a bit.

By: Guti

Guti — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:59:49 +0000

Very nice article.

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:47:23 +0000

I believe this will result in the login manager being enabled again the next time it is upgraded. update-rc.d is *not* for administrators to use -- it is only for package maintainer scripts to use to install their startup links.

The correct way to disable a service (such as GDM) from being started in a given runlevel (e.g., 2 which is Debian’s default runlevel) is like so:

mv /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm /etc/rc2.d/K70gdm

Further information can be found in /etc/rc2.d/README.

By: Mathias Bernhardt

Mathias Bernhardt — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:26:50 +0000

Hi!

I usualy boot into text-Mode. I also have this line in my .bash_profile:

if [ "$(echo $(who am i)|awk '{print $2}')" = "tty1" ]; then startx;logout;fi

So when i login at the first Terminal then the windowmanager is started via .xinitrc. I like this much more than all the gdm/kdm/xdm stuff because it uses only MY configs and not those of any admin and the x server is started by the user who’s actually using it.