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VirtualBox: Ubuntu Server loads GUI for Login

I have installed on a MacOS Virtual Box with some Ubuntu installations, some servers and Desktop releases. For Ubuntu Server 20:04 available since months ago, yesterday I executed the image as usual: it starts up in peace but suddenly happened the following:

Now loads a GUI login as follows:

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wondered because it is a server instance. If I do the login it remains as follows:

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In the keyboard if I use: fn + control + alt + F[1-6] I am able to change the tty and do the login

Questions

  • What did Virtualbox/Ubuntu do to show this situation?
  • How resolve this?

>Solution :

I had this situation after of the installation of Erlang and RabbitMQ – this situation happened for many Ubuntu server instances.

Solution

Execute:

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

To see the current configuration execute:

systemctl get-default
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