Boot up Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric in text mode

crtl+alt+f1 to f6.
Oneiric uses lightdm as default instead of gdm.

Still possible to edit grub.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#A.2BAC8-etc.2BAC8-default.2BAC8-grub_.28file.29

"Replacing quiet splash with text will leave you at a login prompt."
 -- http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time

That's what I did. It works for my Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.
Are you sure it works for Ubuntu 11.10? Because the post was answered at Dec 6 '10, even before 11.04.

Thanks

I'm not aware of why it shouldn't work, no reference found that parameter was skipped. Looking at other answers on the page right hand side finds the same answer for 11.04
http://askubuntu.com/questions/63085/directly-boot-to-terminal-bypassing-x

I think all existing answers gear towards gdm, but as you said, "Oneiric uses lightdm as default instead of gdm".
So this is more or less a lightdm issue then.

thanks

Solve it heave-handedly because I don't have time to fool around:

 % apt-get remove lightdm
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lightdm ubuntu-desktop
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 After this operation, 500 kB disk space will be freed.

It works, yet that's brutal.
Still wondering how to do it "polity".

cheers

Does it mean you've tried it with lightdm and it didn't work?

Yeah.

Again an interesting matter. Wasn't successful here with:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=text
or "text".
I've looked in lightdm.conf but didn't find a clue. Maybe it's only available via ctrl+alt+f1 and then
sudo service lightdm stop
I've asked somewhere else to do a little brainstorming and report back.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Sam_
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Again an interesting matter

Thank you Sam for your persistent!

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Sam_
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Try again now, it was due to lightdm.upstart, I've attached bug report.
> Update came in today.
>

The bug "was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.0.6-0ubuntu2"

Hmm... sorry I'm not quite clear how Ubuntu bug fixes populate to end user.
So,

- currently the official release is still 1.0.1-0ubuntu6, correct (ref A)?
- how to get the latest bug fixes?

Thanks

Ref A:

$ apt-cache policy lightdm
lightdm:
  Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Yep, having enabled oneiric-updates and installed lightdm - 1.0.6-0ubuntu1, I'm able to boot to text now.

thanks again