RE: HELP, caught in a login loop
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> From: dman [mailto:dsh8290@rit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 10:39 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote:
> | Hi Karsten,
> |
> | Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie.
> straight into a
> | console) by simply typing -
> |
> | linux 3
> |
> | - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with
> whatever name
> | you have assigned to your Debian partition in /etc/lilo.conf).
>
> FYI (Tony and others) -- Debian's default is to have all runlevels
> identical. Thus switching to runlevel 3 won't help.
>
> Instead you may want to make note of the 'single' argument that can be
> passed to the kernel which causes it to skip the init step and simply
> ask for root's password. You can also pass an init argument, such as
>
> linux init=/bin/bash
>
> to change what init program is used. This is essential if, for
> example, PAM becomes broken and all logins fail.
>
> -D
>
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Hmmm, I was kind of wondering why no-one had suggested using 'linux 3' yet,
I guess that's why... at least if 'linux single' still works on Debian the
original poster should be able to get around his xdm problem. Thanks for the
info dman, I thought separate runlevels would be standard on all distros (it
has been on all the others I've used).
Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like
this in Debian?
Bartman
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