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  Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it> - 2017-02-01 21:30 +0100
    Re: Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2017-02-01 21:40 +0100
    Re: Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-01 22:10 +0100
      Re: Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it> - 2017-02-01 23:00 +0100
        Re: Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-25 00:10 +0100

#177247 — Debian/Stretch: how to boot in text mode

Hi all!

After upgrading to Stretch I'm unable to find a way to boot with no GUI.
I tried setting 'GRUB-GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text" in /etc/default/grub,
moving to 'K01gdm3' all 'S??gdm3' instances in /etc/rc?.d, but nothing
happens.
Any help, please?
Regards, Ennio

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#177249

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Am 01.02.2017 um 21:21 schrieb Ennio-Sr:
> Hi all!
> 
> After upgrading to Stretch I'm unable to find a way to boot with no GUI.
> I tried setting 'GRUB-GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text" in /etc/default/grub,
> moving to 'K01gdm3' all 'S??gdm3' instances in /etc/rc?.d, but nothing
> happens.
> Any help, please?

To temporarily boot into text mode, edit the kernel command line in grub
and add "systemd.unit=multi-user.target"

If you want to make this change permanent, run "systemct set-default
multi-user.target"

The default is graphical.target, which will start your display manager,
like gdm3.

Regards,
Michael


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#177255

Ennio-Sr composed on 2017-02-01 21:21 (UTC+0100):

> After upgrading to Stretch I'm unable to find a way to boot with no GUI.
> I tried setting 'GRUB-GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text" in /etc/default/grub,
> moving to 'K01gdm3' all 'S??gdm3' instances in /etc/rc?.d, but nothing
> happens.

You haven't provided your meaning for "text mode".

Greg and Michael's replies answer how to stop booting to a GUI login manager.

If instead what you wish is to avoid seeing any GUI effects, but do want to see 
boot messages from kernel and scripts as init proceeds, you need to ensure they 
have not been turned off by quiet or splash parameters on the kernel cmdline. 
Also, Plymouth may have been installed, which is a more sophisticated form of 
GUI splash during boot. Maybe all you need to do is purge Plymouth, and/or 
eliminate quiet and/or splash from your kernel cmdline (purge them from both 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= in /etc/default/grub, then 
run update-grub).
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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#177263

* Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> [010217, 16:08]:
> Ennio-Sr composed on 2017-02-01 21:21 (UTC+0100):
> 
> > After upgrading to Stretch I'm unable to find a way to boot with no GUI.
> > I tried setting 'GRUB-GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text" in /etc/default/grub,
> > moving to 'K01gdm3' all 'S??gdm3' instances in /etc/rc?.d, but nothing
> > happens.
> 
> You haven't provided your meaning for "text mode".
> 

What I ment was to receive (after booting) a login prompt in tty1 console;
then, if and when I need it switch to a new tty and call 'startx'
Michael's reply was perfect: it did exactly what I wanted ;-)


> Greg and Michael's replies answer how to stop booting to a GUI login manager.
> 
> If instead what you wish is to avoid seeing any GUI effects, but do want to
> see boot messages from kernel and scripts as init proceeds, you need to
> ensure they have not been turned off by quiet or splash parameters on the
> kernel cmdline. Also, Plymouth may have been installed, which is a more
> sophisticated form of GUI splash during boot. Maybe all you need to do is
> purge Plymouth, and/or eliminate quiet and/or splash from your kernel
> cmdline (purge them from both GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= in /etc/default/grub, then run update-grub).

I'll keep in mind your suggestions: for the time being I'm not sure I
understand them well.

Many thanks to you all (Greg, Michael and youself) for the rapid and
efficient answers.
Regards, Ennio

P:S: I'm answering your message from mutt (in a console) from my laptop
as I messed up with postfix on main PC and my messages are being bounced
by the list. Now I've got to understand how to solve this new problem...

-- 
[Perche' usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ..."anche uno sciocco sa farlo.   \\?//
 Fa' qualche cosa di cui non sei capace!"  (diceva Henry Miller) ]    (°|°)
[Why use Win$ozz (I say) if ... "even a fool can do that.              )=(
 Do something you aren't good at!" (as Henry Miller used to say) ]

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#178138

On Wednesday 01 February 2017 21:56:11 Ennio-Sr wrote:
> P:S: I'm answering your message from mutt (in a console) from my laptop
> as I messed up with postfix on main PC

\o/  Yay!!  Goodee!!

No more HTML. :-)  Long may your main PC be out of action!

Lisi

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