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[Bob Goodwin]

About a week ago while googling for a solution to my display resolution 
problem I happened across a simple command line entry that changed this 
computer such that it now boots to a text screen instead of the GUI. I 
thought I had saved that information but alas it's gone and I have not 
been able to find it. I have two others I would like to treat the same way.

Does anyone know what that was?

Bob

[Bob Goodwin]

On 12/03/13 16:10, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> About a week ago while googling for a solution to my display 
> resolution problem I happened across a simple command line entry that 
> changed this computer such that it now boots to a text screen instead 
> of the GUI. I thought I had saved that information but alas it's gone 
> and I have not been able to find it. I have two others I would like to 
> treat the same way.
>
> Does anyone know what that was?
>
> Bob

I found the answer to my question:

Switch to runlevel 3 by default:

ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target 
/etc/systemd/system/default.target

Sorry for the noise ...

Bob

[EGO-II.1]

On 03/12/2013 05:24 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 12/03/13 16:10, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> > About a week ago while googling for a solution to my display 
> > resolution problem I happened across a simple command line entry that 
> > changed this computer such that it now boots to a text screen instead 
> > of the GUI. I thought I had saved that information but alas it's gone 
> > and I have not been able to find it. I have two others I would like 
> > to treat the same way.
> >
> > Does anyone know what that was?
> >
> > Bob
>
> I found the answer to my question:
>
> Switch to runlevel 3 by default:
>
> ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target 
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>
> Sorry for the noise ...
>
> Bob

I for one appreciate your "noise" as it gives me "educational" tid-bits 
as to how to achieve some form of results when something goes 
haywire...so please be as NOISY as you can! LoL!

Cheers!

EGO II

[Tim]

Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> > About a week ago while googling for a solution to my display 
> > resolution problem I happened across a simple command line entry that 
> > changed this computer such that it now boots to a text screen instead 
> > of the GUI.
> I found the answer to my question:
>
> Switch to runlevel 3 by default:
>
> ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target 
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target

It does seem a rather brutal approach.  Considering that there are quite
a few "system default" settings that people want to play with, that need
configuring all over the place, it's a shame that we don't have a
*single* /etc/defaults location that lets one easily set run levels,
display managers, and other things, in a way that's obvious to
understand just by reading the current configurations set in it.

As opposed to making links, finding how GDM is started/chosen, likewise
for Gnome/KDE/others, etc.

[Joonas Sarajärvi]

Hi,

2013/3/13 Tim :
> It does seem a rather brutal approach.

I do not much like setting symlinks manually, either. However,
systemctl also can set them for you if you run just something like
this:

systemctl enable --force multi-user.target

This works because multi-user.target has a line like this in its
[Install] section:
Alias=default.target

The force flag is needed or systemctl will not overwrite an existing symlink.
> From Fedora 18 onwards, the same mechanism also works for display

managers like kdm and gdm.