[SOLVED] change the runlevel of ubuntu 11.10

lonelyman · 07-29-2012, 01:06 AM

hi,guys:
recently i installed ubuntu11.10,i'm not familiar with the Debian/Ubuntu series,i don't know how to change runlevel of it,it default starts the graphical interface,but how to change it to the terminal interface?

TobiSGD · 07-29-2012, 05:49 AM

The Debian family doesn't really make use of different runlevels, they only use runlevel 2 and runlevels 3-5 are not used, but the same as runlevel 2. If you want to have a runlevel without GUI you have to make it yourself, I think that Ubuntu has a graphical tool for it, but it should also be possible to configure that over the commandline. In the past I would have used sysv-rc-conf for that, but since Ubuntu changed to Upstart I don't know how to do it. All you have to do is to disable the display manager.

lonelyman · 07-29-2012, 08:03 PM

yeah,thanks,i searched for many articles about this,many of them refers to the sysv-rc-conf,but it doesn't fit since 11.04,so i am confused,i wonder a way to do it.

evo2 · 07-29-2012, 08:38 PM

Hi,

explicitly including the term "upstart" in a duckduckgo search seems to provide the information you need:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=upstart+disable+service

Evo2.

EDDY1 · 07-29-2012, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lonelyman

yeah,thanks,i searched for many articles about this,many of them refers to the sysv-rc-conf,but it doesn't fit since 11.04,so i am confused,i wonder a way to do it.

You can just install ubuntu server which has no GUI.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server