On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:58:32PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > Nobody. However, you're assuming that xdm et al will keep trying to > > start an X server, even if it fails. Luckily, the respective initscripts > > are far more clever than that. > > I've had a laptop that froze because of X starting up and using the wrong > driver to access the card (some of the embedded graphic cards in laptops > are really crappy). The only way to fix this was to startup with a rescue > CD and preventing xdm from running with an 'exit 0' in its initd script (or > by removing its links). At the time, I would have appreciated the > opportunity to bootup in a runlevel that wouldn't try to start up the X > environment until I had fixed the issue. > Is that not the purpose of single user mode or run level 1? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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