Re: Frozen cursor after logout; CLI escape

[Claas Langbehn <claas@rootdir.de>]

<quote who="Marc Stergionis">

> Debian always goes to a graphic login. I've tried changing 
> /etc/inittab to runlevel 3, 4 and 5 but have never gotten a text 
> login. How do I?

you need to disable xdm

> I have been using (since root obviously can't log in graphically) 
> control-option-F1 to get a command line to use as root, but can't 
> figure out how to toggle back out of that (to the user login) and 
> when I try to log  in as my user, the screen tells  me there's 
> already an xserver running (the existing graphic login screen).

try this: Ctrl-Alt-Applekey-fn-F1 (on iBooks)
or Ctrl-Alt-F1 (on other machines with direct F1-Keys)


Bye, C.