Public bug reported:
It would be most wonderful if an equivelent to casper-udeb/runlevel was
introduced that allowed one to disable X and GDM/KDM from the LiveCD.
The runlevel option seems to have been removed. Likely because runlevels
are meaningless with upstart. Even so, there doesn't seem to be any
built in way to boot the LiveCD to a text console only.
Specifically, I have a server which I need to boot up with a removable
media. My first thought was to use the LiveCD, but mearly starting X on
this server causes it to hard lock, making it unable to return to the
console.
As a temporary suggestion, I suggest a simple casper-udeb/textmode=true
template which simply removes gdm/kdm rc scripts. Nothing more is
required now.
When upstart starts handling service startup, maybe we could introduce
support for micromanaging service state generically: casper-udeb
/disable-jobs=gdm,kdm
** Affects: casper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Unconfirmed
** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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Add support to disable GDM/X configuration and startup.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/65818
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