>> "Dan" == Dan <danb50@hotmail.com> writes: Dan> I know... but xdm has a loop that never exits. If you go to "Quit Dan> X-windows" when you right click, it just restarts xdm. Thank you Dan> for reminding me of the name though. Then switch to a virtual console by pressing ctrl+strg+f1, log in as root, stop xdm with /etc/init.d/xdm stop, and disable xdm startup as described by a previous mail. Ciao, Martin