On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Ralf Schreijer wrote: > Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my > life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the > installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I > successfully installed and configured Xorg. Everything went well, > until I reached the section 5.6.2, "Using XDM". I just tried to follow > the instructions and enabled xdm to start running on the 9th virtual > terminal by replacing the "off" by "on" in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 > "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure in ttyv8 > "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
> Now I can't do anything. The system directly boots into the xdm, > prompts a loginscreen and if I login as root (or as a user) there is > nothing I can do. As I know now there isn't even a chance to leave the > xdm. If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, it flips into the shell an returns > immediately to xdm and prompts the login again. I tried fixing this > through booting in Single User Mode, but I wasn't successful because I > have no write permission in /etc/ttys during this mode. Seems, you are interested in doing <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1> to return to your console. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
