Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

From: Richard Lyons (richard_at_the-place.net)
Date: 08/26/03

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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:19:02 +0200

    On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:58, Sarah Forbes wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I
    > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in
    > manager displays.
    >
    > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot
    > process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I cannot
    > disable x windows from the command line because I can never get in.

    This sort of thing is one of the reasons I always use a text login. IIRC,
    what I did to prevent X starting was the brute-force method of unlinking all
    the kdm, gdm, xdm links in /etc/rc2.d. That should do it, if no more elegant
    approach is suggested.

    >
    > If you have any clues as to what might be causing my keyboard to disable
    > in the first place, I would be very grateful to hear them.

    That'll need someone more expert than me...

    HTH 

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richard
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