Re: Problem building Precise Ubuntu Desktop

Hello, Nicholas,

On 7/9/2012 11:42 AM, Dechesne, Nicolas wrote:

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, David Cullen wrote:

Does anyone know how to keep lightdm from starting during boot
without using update-rc.d to delete the symlinks?  Ubuntu does not
have a multi-user command-line runlevel.

adding 'text' in the bootargs should do that.

On a desktop system that would be an easy way to do it.

Unfortunately, on the PandaBoard, it requires mounting the SD card boot partition on another system, modifying the boot.cmd script, and running mkimage to create a new boot.scr.

I think I will go with the method that is buried in this thread

http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/whats-the-recommended-way-to-enable-dis...

echo "manual" > /etc/init/lightdm.override