> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp > connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have > bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an > endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in > the boot sequence and now I can't shut it off. Ctrl/Alt/BS kills the > server, but it immediately comes back up. I've tried rebooting with the > boot floppy and the rescue floppy, but as soon as the file system is > mounted and fsck'ed, the disfunctional X comes right back. > > How can I get out of this endless loop so I can fix XF86Config? This is > a stand-alone machine, so it cannot be remotedly accessed.
The mistake you have made is to tell xdm to start automatically before getting X configured correctly. Try starting it up in single user mode... and using the boot floppy shouldn't let xdm start - it's running its own programm... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
