Hi there, Chris On 28-Oct-02, you said:
CT> There might be some magic boot argument or such, but here's one way CT> I know: CT> CT> Use your install disk to boot the installer. Switch to console 2, CT> or spawn a shell. Mount the root partition, for the sake of illustration: CT> CT> mount /dev/sda3 /mnt CT> CT> Then cd /mnt/etc/rc2.d and ls. You should see something like S20xdm CT> among the files. Just rename it, I would use CT> CT> mv S20xdm NotS20xdm CT> CT> Then quit the installer and reboot, xdm will be prevented from starting up. OK - thank you - that worked, and I managed to boot to the console and, after a fair bit of too-ing and fro-ing with dselect and dpkg, I managed to get the full update installed and configured error free (eventually). Now I have a more serious problem. After dumping xdm, and opting for gdm (which was always more stable under 2.2) I attempted to start X Windows again. No go - but I think it's just a config problem - which I should be able to sort out. The real problem started after I powered down to give myself a break from it for a while. Now, when I restart linux, it boots the kernal, and tries to start X Windows, eventually fails (owing to the aformentioned config problem) and leaves me at the console login. So, login name and password go in - and the system crashes. About 50% of the time, I could use the install script to start linux, switch to the console (Alt - F2), mount the linux partition from there and execute a chroot and su to give me full control again. However, this is becoming less and less likely to work, too. The last 5 or 6 attempts have failed. As soon as I execute the chroot, the system crashes. I've had a good look around the net and can't find an answer to this one, and not being able to login means I can't do very much at all at the moment. Does anyone have any ideas what may be causing this and how to fix it? It's only appeared since upgrading to Woody. I've spent the last 4 hours trying to resolve this myself, and now I'm tired, and more than a little fed up. :o( Regards Steve -- Die! -- Worf, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, (Deja Q)"
