On Thu, July 24 at 2:09 PM EDT Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g >desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to >login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut >down, leaving me with a 'Enter root password... or ctl-D for...' >message. Is it okay to power down from that state? Sorry if that is >a dumb question, but I'm new to debian. Did you "unlink" the K as well as the S links? The K links would be the ones killing the processes. I would log in as root again, manually kill them, then shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now. Hopefully they won't restart on boot and you won't have that problem again. I think a preferred way is to rename the gdm to gdm.old in /etc/inittab and then #update-rc.d gdm remove Likewise for the others. HTH, Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
