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How do I prevent GDM from running at boot on Ubuntu?

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Mar 15, 202610958 views
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I have a Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) sever that currenlty boots up and runs gnome. I would like to make it so that when it boots it only goes into text-mode (e.g. the x server never starts) I tried: without any avail...how can I do this?

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sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

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Fix for: How do I prevent GDM from running at boot on Ubuntu?

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Messing with the runlevel, through or (replacement for ) or the kernel boot options, won't help. The default runlevel on Ubuntu is 2 (check with the command), and there is no runlevel which is configured to be multi-user and text mode by default. Ac…

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