disabling of XWindows start on ubunt

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi,
Update from the front:
  1) Ubuntu 13.04 *server* installation when great, it booted!
  2) After "apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop"
and reboot, it hanged after Xwindows started and I inserted the
correct password of the non root user I created. I waited over 5
minutes, booted again, nothing helped.
3) I opened a terminal (ctrl/f2 or alt/ctrl/f2, can't remember exactly) and
ran "apt-upgrade". In case this does not solve it, and in next boot it hangs
again, I will unfortunately consider returning to Fedora

rgs
Kevin

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 06/05/13 16:08, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>
>>> What do you mean with "you need to be a level #1"? If you select "root"
>>> in recovery mode, you are at a root shell where you can type the given
>>> command. Then the root file system will be remounted rw (if possible).
>>> There is no special skill needed (except knowing the command). Another
>>> option to get the root file system remounted rw would be to choose the
>>> option "network", where you will be warned that the root file system
>>> will get remounted rw and other file systems will get mounted also
>>> according to /etc/fstab.
>>
>> I admit that I haven't been following the thread too closely and the
>> significance of the "recovery mode" escaped me for the reason that I have
>> never had to resort to "recovery mode".
>>
>> I would simply boot my system in the normal manner but at the grub menu I
>> would enter "init 1" on the boot command line and would then be taken to
>> user level #1 where I would issue the command, as root, "mount -o remount,
>> ro /dev/sdXy" (followed by "e2fsck /dev/sdXy" to have the file system
>> checked, which was the only time I ever used this procedure).
>
> The difference between recovery mode and single mode is that, since
> 12.04 (and perhaps earlier), recovery mode appends "recovery" to the
> "linux" grub line rather than "single" and that leads to mounting "/"
> ro whereas when "single" is appended to the "linux" grub line, "/" is
> mounted rw.
>
> If we were still running grub1, we'd be able to set up the automagic
> system so that "update-grub" would create three different options for
> each kernel, "standard", "single", and "recovery", but grub2's removed
> that flexibility. :(
>
> "Traditionally," you could boot with "/" ro by appending "-b" to the
> kernel's grub options but I've never tried it with upstart's
> "/sbin/init". Assuming that "-b" still works with upstart, it must
> enable less "stuff" than "recovery" does because when I've used "-b"
> on Debian, I've had to use sysrq to reboot.
>
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