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Hey guys whats up, I was fooling around on my box and changed the inittab along with emerging gnome-light. Pretty much all I changed was the /etc/inittab runlevel from 3 to 5 to get a gui login. Well it works but something is broken about the login, its just a bix X and gray background and I login and dont get anything. So I tried to change it back to 3 and still get the gui. I can change it to 1 and get the text login but no internet, obviously.
I told you all that so you can understand alittle about the situation, basically what I want again is just to have the normal text login (runlevel 3) but when I change it to 3 i still get the XDM (i think thats what it is) If anyone knows anyother files I have to edit to get it going back to runlevel 3, I've been reading through all the files related to startup but maybe I missed something. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
When changing inittab, are you re-booting? If so, and you still have problems, check to see that the file is really changed (maybe an issue with saving??)
I reboot everytime I changed the inittab file, and I still get XDM and it even says during start-up that "Entering runlevel 3" but I still get the GUI xdm.
Ok, So how exactly do I go about stopping XDM, I mean i can run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" but that just stops it for the current session. How do I 'umemerge' xdm because I think now that your telling me all this, I remember emerging xdm and I think that command embedded xdm into my runlevel. So how can I fully remove xdm? Or what command will fix this problem?
emerge would not have added xdm to runlevel 3, you must have done that. It's been a while since I've ran Gentoo but look check the man page for rc-update and use that to remove xdm from the default runlevel. Something like this, maybe a Gentoo user could correct my syntax here?
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