On 12/03/2015 02:18 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
There seems to be no reliable way to suppress the GUI; I want to do
that on the server I just built, because if someone logs in, the
machine locks up.
I can ssh in, or log in to the console ater pressing Alt-F1, as often
as I want, and the server will keep running, but if anyone logs into
the GUI, the machine freezes. So, I want to suppress the GUI. This was
easy in the days before systemd; now, it seems to be impossible. I am
going to have to reinstall the operating system and specify no GUI.
The nuclear sledgehammer would be 'apt-get purge lightdm' (or gdm,
depending upon which is installed) (took me a bit to find the command;
I'm a CentOS user, and the equivalent would be 'yum remove gdm' on
CentOS 7. Which doesn't ask to remove as many packages as I thought it
would.....)
Expect a lot of packages to be uninstalled, although it might not be as
many as I think.....
You can also try the solution mentioned at
http://ask.xmodulo.com/boot-into-command-line-ubuntu-debian.html but
some forum posts seem to indicate that the 'text' parameter to the
kernel may or may not work with Deb 8.
Hope that helps.
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