Re: trapped in an xdm loop?
*- On 4 Dec, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote about "trapped in an xdm loop?"
> I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux
> (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and
> Password prompt. Typing a login and password doesn't help because
> I get a blank blue screen and the mouse doesn't work. Pressing
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at this point also throws me back into the xdm
> login/Password prompt. I tried restarting the system and it boots
> into this login/Password prompt. I tried typing Ctrl+C while it
> was listing all the things it was doing and could not stop it
> from running xdm. I tried booting from the boot floppy I made and
> it said "boot failed". I can boot off the Rescue floppy but I
> don't know what to type at the prompt to get to a point where I
> can edit my config files so it won't start xdm at boot. FYI, this
> happened when I was trying to get my mouse to work and I saw an
> archived message from this list that said try "xdm stop" so I
> tried that and now I'm in this loop.
>
Ctr+Alt+F1 will take you to the first virtual console. Login as root
and issue the command '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. This will stop xdm until
you reboot or restart it. If you don't ever want xdm to start just
remove it, 'dpkg --remove xdm'.
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Brian Servis
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