On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:59 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:55 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > >> Got to your terminal and type: >> sudo "gedit /etc/inittab" >> >> This should give you a blank editor window to work with >> Type into it: >> id:3:initdefault >> >> and then save >> >> If it is not blank find the line: >> id:5:initdefault >> and change the five to a three. > ... unfortunately, Ubuntu is debian based, and for some unknown reason, > they use runlevel 2 for multiuser work by default - text or graphical. > > Steve
The correct answer is sudo update-rc.d gdm remove this will remove gdm (which starts X) from startup.
