RE: HELP! XDM locked me out of Linux!
> Jesse Goldman <jgoldman@miranda.fnal.gov> writes:
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> > I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
> > that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
> > If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
>
> I've gotten bitten by this problem before, and this solution
> unfortunately won't help. The machine cycles so fast between
> launching X and X dying that you only get a fraction of a second at
> the console, then it switches back to X, then back to the console,
> then back to X...
>
> You can't type anything reliably, because only a small portion of your
> keypresses make it to the console.
>
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> Rob
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If all else fails, boot from a boot disk, mount your root partition, start
a shell as root, type init 1 - single user, go into /etc/X11, comment out
the entry which starts xdm in config, then rerun XF86config or do whatever
else you need,
Andy
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