start Wheezy without X window

[ccc]

Hi

I have Wheezy with Gnome Desktop installed.
Howto start Wheezy without X window, to have just commad line?

[golinux]

At the login prompt ctrl + alt + F1 gets me to a terminal where I can login as user and then root if necessary. As for a more permanent solution . . . uninstall the login manager?

[v_evets]

look in /etc/inittab. You can change the default runlevel here, or by passing the runlevel on the kernel command line @ boot.
Can't recall which runlevels start gdm/kdm/etc. but have a look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html. Should all become clear

[cynwulf]

Run levels are not the way to manage this in Debian as run levels 2 - 5 are the same.

The less subtle approach is to just uninstall the display manager.

The "correct" method is

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# update-rc.d gdm3 disable

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# update-rc.d gdm3 enable

Other methods, e.g. deleting symbolic links or chmod'ing the script so that's it's not executable, will probably not survive an upgrade of the package.

[jheaton5]

Run levels are not the way to manage this in Debian as run levels 2 - 5 are the same.

The less subtle approach is to just uninstall the display manager.

The "correct" method is

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# update-rc.d gdm3 disable

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# update-rc.d gdm3 enable

Other methods, e.g. deleting symbolic links or chmod'ing the script so that's it's not executable, will probably not survive an upgrade of the package.

I usually just do

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# apt-get purge gdm3

How is your way different/better?

[cynwulf]

How is your way different/better?

"My way" is not better it's just a different way and is a means of disabling the gdm3 (or any) daemon without removing the whole package. It's really up to the end user. If you don't and never will need gdm3 then you can just uninstall it, if however you might need it in the future and want to keep it installed (and updated) then just disabling the daemon is enough.

[v_evets]

Run levels are not the way to manage this in Debian as run levels 2 - 5 are the same.

The less subtle approach is to just uninstall the display manager.

The "correct" method is

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# update-rc.d gdm3 disable

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# update-rc.d gdm3 enable

Other methods, e.g. deleting symbolic links or chmod'ing the script so that's it's not executable, will probably not survive an upgrade of the package.

True, but they don't _have_ to be the same. Coming from Slackware, I still use 'em
After all, therse's always more than one way to skin any particular cat...
You will generate a warning about start / stop runlevels not matching the LSB defaults when upgrading, but your changes should survive (IME).

[cynwulf]

I'm also a Slackware user, but due to the way Debian is designed and built, there just does not seem any point in messing with run levels. There are two accepted, tried and tested methods to disable a daemon in Debian - either the one I posted or by just removing the package.

[Beewolf]

sysv-rc-conf will let you customize your runlevels and the choices won't be overridden on upgrade.