As stated many years ago, this is a question of local policy. Some
users want the same runlevel definitions as RedHat isn't a critical bug
in Debian or Ubuntu, it's a local decision for the admin to make, should
they want to. The argument that you need a text-only runlevel for
maintenance is
Not quite. Single-user mode is useless if you need network
connectivuty. That's the purpose of it, disabling all devices and
getting to a bare running command prompt. If you instead want to work
on the system *WITH* the network enabled, then a text-only runlevel is
needed. Also, if you want to
The attached patch will prevent lxdm from starting in runlevel 2 (and 1,
don't know why lxdm is supposed to start in RL 1). One has to edit their
/etc/init/*dm.conf for the desktop manager they're using.
But I agree with James here: there's no reason to start X11 in runlevel
2. Just because
The attachment Don't start lxdm in runlevel 1,2 of this bug report has
been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been
subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the
event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by
removing the
There is no requirement for this in the LSB, but it is strongly recommended.
Here is a package which should set up your system to run without a GUI for
runlevels 1, 2, and 3. Removing the package should set you back to standard
Ubuntu. This should work for all ubuntu's including Edgy and
