Ubuntu text login

[Michal Ludvig]

Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:06:20AM -0400, boricua wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:57:47 +0200
>> Dieter Schicker <dieter.schicker at uni-graz.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> how can I login into Ubuntu in text mode?
>> set to runlevel 3
>>
> Spot the RedHat refugee - neither Debian nor Ubuntu work like that. Both
> start up in runlevel two, and runlevel three is (by default) exactly the
> same. To prevent the display manager starting you should either remove
> the links from /etc/rc2.d/ or change the contents of
> /etc/X11/default-display-manager.

That's one of the things I hate about Debian-derived systems. What's the
reason for this? It's sometimes handy to just add '3' at the end of
grub/lilo command line to ensure I won't get stuck with recently broken
X setup. Much easier than booting to runlevel 1, fiddling with
/etc/rc2.d, etc.

Michal