Re: how can I get back to console?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Eddie Torres <veloct@veloct.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:23:37 Ken Weingold wrote:
>> It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I
>> want to get back to the console.  The machine has the X login screen
>> on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes
>> right back to the login screen.
>
>go into /etc/initab and the first line to 2 or 3 instead of 5. Do it as
>root.

(/etc/inittab, by the way.)

That's Red Hat and derived distributions, not Debian. Debian's default
runlevel is 2, and there are no distinct definitions for any of 2, 3, 4,
or 5; in other words, runlevel 5 isn't defined to be the "X" runlevel.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]