Ubuntu: How do you change default runlevels without inittab?

[Jeffrey McCright]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but messages 4 and 5 at the 
following link may hold the key:

http://theos.in/ubuntu-linux-shutdown-the-x-server.html

Good Luck!


Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
816-210-3107
jmccright at hotmail.com





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>I've just installed Xubuntu on an older computer.  I
>want the option of running the GUI some of the time
>(such as for the Synaptic Package Manager), but I want
>to boot into text mode all of the time and run startx
>when needed.
>
>So I go to edit /etc/inittab and change the default
>runlevel so that the GUI doesn't start on boot, except
>there is no inittab.  Instead, there's this entirely
>new thing called "Upstart".
>
>I've been on the Upstart pages and on the Ubuntu
>forums.  Everyone is fawning over the new Upstart and
>how great it is going to be, but no one is saying how
>you can get rid of the GUI login in Upstart.
>
>All I want to do is change "id:5:initdefault:" to
>"id:3:initdefault:", but I can't find anything on the
>Upstart pages to let me know how to do that in
>Upstart.   Before you ask, I have read everything in
>/etc/event.d, and I still don't understand any of the
>scripts.
>
>People have said that Upstart will yield to a
>/etc/inittab you create yourself, but I can't find any
>information on copying the information out of Upstart
>and changing it to make a homemade /etc/inittab.  I'm
>a little worried about an /etc/inittab with a single
>line, if Upstart is going to rely entirely on the /etc/inittab.
>
>
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