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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-October/019531.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-October/019531.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3bf01e339 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-October/019531.html @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20fdisk%20or%20gparted&In-Reply-To=%3C508A48D7.2090109%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="019530.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="019493.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20fdisk%20or%20gparted&In-Reply-To=%3C508A48D7.2090109%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Oct 26 10:24:55 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019530.html">[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019493.html">[Mageia-dev] Bash Update revoked customized configuration +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19531">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19531">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19531">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19531">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 26/10/12 00:33 did gyre and gimble: +><i> On another note, I'm getting used to system-D and I note that inittab is +</I>><i> more or less useless. +</I> +Yup, it's not even read now. + +><i> I am trying to set my machine, MGA-2, to boot without graphics until +</I>><i> such time as I uninstall Xorg. +</I>><i> systemctl disable dm.service tells me that there is no such service. +</I>><i> chkconfig calls systemctl ... +</I> +Yeah, this is a bit rubbish still. dm.service is just a symlink to mask +the real name of the service but the error message helpfully doesn't +hint at that. There was a discussion with a proposal to make this much +better upstream just a couple days ago so it'll probably get better over +time. + +For various reasons I won't go into here (it's on the upstream +discussion) enabling/disabling services via their aliases is not a great +idea. More meta info is certainly needed tho'! + +><i> How do I tell the system that yes graphics are installed and NO I don't +</I>><i> want to see them on boot?????? +</I> +So in order to see more info, you can do "systemctl status dm.service" +This will tell you the *real* name of the service: which in this case is +prefdm.service: + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">colin at jimmy</A> code (master)]$ systemctl status dm.service +prefdm.service - Display Manager + Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/prefdm.service; static) + Active: active (running) since Tue, 2012-10-23 10:54:17 BST; 2 days ago + + +So normally I would say just run "systemctl disable prefdm.service" +should do the trick but if you look at the output above carefully, this +is actually a "static" service. This means it cannot be enabled/disabled +separately. This will eventually change (as in the long term we'll +transition to separate services for each of the desktop DMs +(gdm.service, kdm.service etc.). + +Anyway, for now it's a hard requirement of graphical.target. + + +So long story short, you need to set your default.target to point at +multi-user.target rather than graphical.target. + +You can use one of the utilities in drakxtools (I forget which) or you +can simply issue: + +ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target +/etc/systemd/system/default.target + +(drop the leading "/usr" if on mga2). + +HTHs + +Col + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019530.html">[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019493.html">[Mageia-dev] Bash Update revoked customized configuration +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19531">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19531">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19531">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19531">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |