[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 14644] Re: Runlevel 2 starting GUI

2011-11-01 Thread James E. LaBarre
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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 14644] Re: Runlevel 2 starting GUI

2011-11-01 Thread Adam Conrad
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 re

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 14644] Re: Runlevel 2 starting GUI

2011-10-22 Thread Ubuntu QA's Bug Bot
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 th

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 14644] Re: Runlevel 2 starting GUI

2011-10-22 Thread Christian Kujau
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 some-o