Bug#749374: gdm3: Disable gdm3 service for systemd doesn't work

[Stijn Declercq]

Op Mon, 26 May 2014 20:25:58 +0200
schreef Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:

> Am 26.05.2014 18:25, schrieb stijn:
> > Package: gdm3
> > Version: 3.12.2-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I prefer to login via textmode, in the past that always has worked.
> > Since a while gdm3 has to be installed or gnome-shell doesn't work
> > but i disabled it so it didn't startup at boottime.
> > But now gdm3 is always starting at boot, even I've disabled the
> > gdm3 service over and over again.
> > 
> > It's quite annoying that i have to do this everytime again so it's
> > probably a bug.
> > 
> > I always disable gdm3 service with this command:
> > 
> > # systemctl disable gdm3
> 
> gdm3.service has no [Install] section.
> You'll need the big hammer:
> systemctl mask gdm3.service
> 
> 


This is not working unfortunately. If I mask gdm3.service , then
there's a symlink created from gdm3.service to /dev/null  but gdm3 is
still starting up at boot time. The symlink from gdm3.service
to /dev/null is still existing then.