lightdm.override set to manual but it doesn't override
I'm running ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to override lightdm and boot to a console screen. This used to be so easy. I set
GRUB_CMDLINE_
in /etc/default/grub, then updated grub. But then, in order to deal with ubuntu's sound problems I follows the instructions in
https:/
which ran a number of updates. Since doing this, I now an unable to avoid being booted into lightdm's gui screen. I read that this was a bug, and that the bug had been fixed, but my version of lightdm (1.2.1) is apparently the most recent one.
The official way to override lightdm is apparently to create a file /etc/init/
I've tried a couple more things,
adding a line "manual" to the bottom of lightdm.conf
commenting out the stanza beginning with "start on"
The .conf script says that it's checking the command line for the word "text";
my proc/cmdline indeed has the word text at the end, but it's being ignored.
It really seems like the only explanation can be that /etc/init/
So I tried to remove lightdm as some threads suggest with
sudo update-rc.d -f lightdm remove
This removed the link in /etc/init.d from lightdm to upstart-job
but *still* I get the lightdm gui
Could anybody suggest something please?
How could it possibly be so hard to do such a primitive thing as override a gui?e
Thanks for any advice!I
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