debian default runlevel
 

I keep getting a graphical login with Debian (woody 3.0r1). I've gone to /etc/inittab where it has lines that say:

#The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

I've changed that 2 to a 3 but I still get a graphical login. Am I in the right place? Does anyone know what I need to change where to boot to the command line instead?

If it helps, boot up shows that it does enter run level 3 but then it always starts xdm..

Thanks in advance for the help!

In Debian you have the update-rc.d program for dealing with symlinks of the runlevels. Get the default runlevel to 2 back, than run, as root :

update-rc.d -f xdm remove && update-rc.d xdm start 99 3 4 5 . stop 99 0 1 2 6 .

Then the system will boot with command line. You just have to be able to launch 'init 3' to get a graphical login. You can use sudo for that.

Cripe! It worked! Merci mon ami! I have no idea what that command does (are you sure you're a newbie!?) but it did the trick. Thanks again!

That command just creates or removes the symlinks you can find in the runlevels :

ls -l /etc/rc?.d