How do I avoid booting up in X?

aargh · 10-29-2004, 02:50 PM

I am running Fedora and on reboot it starts up in X (gnome). What shall I change to just start up in terminal-mode?

I'm sure it's quite easy:-)

Lleb_KCir · 10-29-2004, 02:52 PM

edit your /etc/init.d (i think that is the correct folder) and change your default runlevel to 2 or 3...

google search for runlevel and add that fact that you have FC shound provide a better detailed howto.

darkleaf · 10-29-2004, 02:52 PM

Delete gdm. You can also set it to run in a different init mode but I'm not sure how to do that.

Peacedog · 10-29-2004, 02:54 PM

Quote:

edit your /etc/init.d (i think that is the correct folder) and change your default runlevel to 2 or 3...

I believe it's /etc/inittab. ;-)

aargh · 10-29-2004, 03:02 PM

/etc/init.d is a directory containing only executeables.

Deleting gdm? well... if I want to use X later on I can't... right? I prefer to edit the proper config file.

Does anyone know what config-file to edit so it won't boot up in X?

redjokerx · 10-29-2004, 03:30 PM

I believe it's /etc/inittab

But Lleb_KCir is right. Change one of the first few lines of inittab from 5 to 3

Code:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

darkleaf · 10-29-2004, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by aargh
Deleting gdm? well... if I want to use X later on I can't... right? I prefer to edit the proper config file.

You can start x then with the command line:

Code:

startx

But it won't manage sessions this way I think. It's not the proper way but I found it's the best way for me to use x. If you want to boot in the command line and start gdm then you'll have to kill it in the console cause it'll keep running otherwise.

celejar · 10-29-2004, 03:58 PM

The stuff in init.d is scripts, not the actual executables, but you still don't want to delete them. You could chmod them to be non-executable, but it's anyway the symlinks in the /etc/rc'n'.d dirs that call the init.d scripts, so you can just delete or move the symlinks out of the dir that represents the runlevel that the system is entering (e.g. 2 on Debian). The ones beginning with @S start services and processes, so you would take care of "/ect/rc'x'.d/@S'nnn'gdm".