ehmm.....i hope this is the right place!!!

hello...how can i change my ubuntu to start in text mode...and when i need it i also want to use the gui.....FYI i had already install ubuntu....soo where should i change to make it automatically start in text mode.....

thanks for your help.....

ehmmm... thanks kons for the fast reply!! but i cant seemed to find inittab in etc..!!! even using locate inittab doesn't give the right places....maybe ubuntu using another mthods to set the runlevel???

it soo weird...i install using the livecd version....

do you think i should crated it manually???

i will try to create it....

thanks agains kons

This post has been edited by doshka: Apr 30 2007, 06:49 PM

ehmmm.....

yup...what kons stated above is right....ubuntu not using the normal runlevel as other linux...

i had checked that in all runlevel 2 - 5 had S13gdm to start gdm while runlevel 0,1 and 6 had K01gdm to stop gdm!

inittab is also not needed...but after i copy the inittab...it is still used by the system...except that no matter what runlevel you set as default..the system still booting to GUI...in my case gnome...

as for my solution.. i had to ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console and stop the gdm manually, with sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop...

to think about it, it's so weird that ubuntu choose to ditch the normal default behaviour of runlevel....but after much thinking about it, it's all come to place...ubuntu want to be a Desktop Replacement OS of choice (replacing windows!!)...soo making sure all runlevel had GUI is the only way to say that IT want to be the Desktop OS!!!!

this is the thing that we have to err, compromise (for ubuntu that is)....emmm...maybe i just should delete the symbolic link in my prefer runlevel and stop whining about it....

thanks kons and all....

help!!!!

recently i had update my installation of edgy, for all update by using update notifier and it was a big update nearly 300MB.......but after reboot i got a big suprise.....i lost both of upper and lower bar in gnome...now i don't know how to get both bar back....

i need the bar, because i don't know how to start gnome applet config anything with command line....i need the menu on upper bar to do it!!!!

can anyone help me?? i hate to do reinstallation of ubuntu because i'm folding now!!!!

thanks in advance...
doshka

thanks, i dont know the name of the command could be soo simple (LOL)

after i type the command i got warning as below...



but the panel are here now...ehhm except that i think i shouldn't close the terminal that i type it.......

thanks again ryu