Bug#771188: multi-user.target boots to graphical mode

[Michael Biebl]

Am 27.11.2014 um 13:39 schrieb Marc Haber:
> Package: systemd
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a current sid system which has been updated to current sid from
> May's sid in a big update run and has gotten systemd in the process.
> 
> Unfortunately, it dies when X is started.
> 
> To debug this issue, I'd like to have a possibility to stop X from
> being started.
> 
> Since I cannot just dump "exit 0" into an init script any more, I need
> a way to stop system startup at the multi-user stage before X is
> started.
> 
>>From the upstream docs, it looks like passing
> "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" on the kernel command line should do
> that: "A special target unit for setting up a multi-user system
> (non-graphical). This is pulled in by graphical.target."
> 
> Unfortunately, my system seems to start up X nevertheless.
> 


Which display manager do you use?
It's most likely, that your display manager does not yet support the new
display manager scheme [1], i.e. doesn't set up
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service correctly and  instead still
installs a SysV init script with a start symlink in /etc/rc?.d/, which
is mapped to multi-user.target.

If you use lightdm or gdm3, which both support the new scheme already,
booting into multi-user.target should not start the display manager.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework



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