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Apparently Ubuntu changed the startup process significantly in Karmic, since GDM is now not started by a startup script in one of the the /etc/rc[0-9].d directories, but something else. Even the /etc/init.d/gdm filesystem entry was changed: it's now a symlink pointing to /lib/init/upstart-job. The latter is part of the upstart package which has the following description ...


It seems that this new upstart init daemon uses config files from /etc/dbus-1/*/* and /etc/init. The gdm package puts one config file into both directory trees.

However to stop GDM from loading the GUI, you can just add a "text" string to the kernel parameter list (eg. in /etc/default/grub if you're using Grub).