Re: System crashes for no apparent reason
Thanks Andre and Nathan,
In fact, Andre's suggestion of adding text to the boot options
just works (so i made another menu entry in my grub,
with just the word 'text' added to the options).
And . . . like magic . . . it comes up as text.
(So i didn't have to mess with anything in /etc/rc.d)
The only thing unsatisfactory is that my caps-lock is gone
(normally i like to map caps-lock to control, but it just doesn't
seem to function at all in this text mode). However, hopefully
if i can isolate my problem then i won't have to deal with
it too much.
Thanks again!!
dan
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Nathan D'elboux <nafe27@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But how would i start it without X?
>>
>> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's
>> already some kind of gui there.
>>
>
> You could try something like this to kill X from starting
>
> mv S04xdm s04xdm (depending on whether you use gdm or xdm of course :)
>
>
> then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway
>
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700
>> Subject: Re: System crashes for no apparent reason
>> From: dan.hitt@gmail.com
>> To: karl.jorgensen@nice.com
>> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen
>> <karl.jorgensen@nice.com> wrote:
>>
>> > An experiment which may exclude the video drivers from the equation:
>> > Try NOT starting X ? If it still crashes without X ever being
>> > started, then it points towards the problem being elsewhere...
>>
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> A real dumb question for you:
>>
>> I also have a sort of crashey/freezey system (although presumably not
>> exactly the same as Marc's).
>>
>> But how would i start it without X?
>>
>> It is very gui intensive --- by the time i get a chance to login, there's
>> already some kind of gui there.
>>
>> I don't suppose there's some kind of boot option i can set because
>> X runs on top of the kernel, but i suppose that somewhere, somehow
>> i can tell the system that the next time it comes up to not bring up X?
>>
>> TIA for any info.
>>
>> dan
>>
>>
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