Hello Yes I agree with Hans, you can change the default runlevel to 2 which gives you a terminal then when you are ready, run gdm3 (starts X automatically) or 'sudo init 5' to load the default window manager.
Do some research into init runlevels and I think it will help you a great deal with a lot of things. Regards Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017 schrieb Hans : > Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017, 09:20:33 CEST schrieb Francesco Pietra: > For testing purposes just move gdm out of the way, Just move /usr/bin/gdm > to / > root, when everything is working fine, move it back. > > So you have a good way to test and go to default later. > > You can also try to force initlevel (I do not know, if this is still > working > in debian), so it will not run into rc5 (with X) but to rc2 (no X). I > guess, > there are people who know better than me, which runlevel is without X. > I did this 10 years ago and forgot about it. > > Hope this helps > > Best > > Hans > > > Hello: > > I would be happy to learn about a safe way to boot amd64 debian8 (gnome3) > > and debian9 (xfce) to terminal, followed by startx and either > gnome-session > > or what is correct for xfce. My older method of killing gdm does no more > > work well. Booting into gui is often giving problems in scientific use of > > linux. My interest is in: > > > > -- Examining all that is loaded during boot > > > > -- Working from the terminal without gnome/xfce when running > > number-crunching codes. > > > > Thanks a lot for advice > > > > francesco pietra > > >
