On 4/24/2005 8:00 AM James Alexander Cook wrote:
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +0000, Michael Neeff wrote:
A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to
direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn
xterm on:
ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon" xterm ON secure.
Now I am stuck in a login loop... I would like to configure X and install
KDE, but it is stuck on the ChooseSessionListWidet I can only choose 2
options DEFAULT/FAIL SAFE and CANCEL and nothing happens in either case...
hitting CTRL+ALT_+BKSPACE does nothing
How do I just login to the command prompt without X opening directly?? I
think I tried option 6 and it gives me a command prompt but I cannot edit
any file.
I have two ideas.
1. After X has opened, press CTRL-ALT-FN where N is a number from 1-8. That
should bring you to a text-based virtual terminal. To go back to X, type
CTRL-ALT-F9.
2. If 1 doesn't work, try booting in single-user mode. From there, you can
remount / read-write, mount /usr (to get access to an editor like vi),
then "vi /etc/ttys" and turn off X11.
# mount -u -o rw /
# mount /usr
# vi /etc/ttys
I don't remember for sure, but I think you'll want to type
# mount -a
before exiting the single-user session to boot the system; I don't think
your filesystems are mounted automatically otherwise.
Or this should work. Open a xterm window and modify /etc/ttys (i.e.
comment out the line that starts xdm). :)
Drew
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