On 2010-07-05, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote:
>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to >> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave >> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. > > The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE, > needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade. I already knew that. > Text or GUI login would not matter. Recompiling the packages was fixing > the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either. > > When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1, > log in and fix it. That is my text login trick. As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work. > I can also check the X > logs that way too. It seems to me that the way you are doing is the > hard way. I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have > to log in on a console, type a command then let it load. I type my username, my passowrd and then I type x and hit enter. > I'll keep my way. I like it easy when possible then do it the hard > way if I run into a problem that requires it. No worries. -- Grant
