[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted

Fri Oct 26 10:24:55 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 26/10/12 00:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> On another note, I'm getting used to system-D and I note that inittab is
+> more or less useless.
+
+Yup, it's not even read now.
+
+> I am trying to set my machine, MGA-2, to boot without graphics until
+> such time as I uninstall Xorg.
+>  systemctl disable dm.service tells me that there is no such service.
+>  chkconfig calls systemctl ...
+
+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'!
+
+> How do I tell the system that yes graphics are installed and NO I don't
+> want to see them on boot??????
+
+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:
+
+[colin at jimmy 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
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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