On March 22, 2016 1:37:16 AM GMT+01:00, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>>> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a >>>>> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head >>>>> examined. >>>> After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails >to >>>> load - as it does with monotonous regularity every eight years or >>>> so. >>> Except X failing to load and falling back toa console never seems to >>> the failure mode I'd run into. It's more like X starts up and the >>> keyboard and mouse don't work, so I've got to go dig out my laptop >>> (which was hopefully not left at the office) boot it up and then ssh >>> into the temporarily headless machine and kill X. >> It's that long since I've had X fail to start (probably because I >don't >> use binary drivers) that I can't really remember, but I don't recall >> every having to do this. >> >> Even so, having to look for something else to SSH in with, when my >phone >> is always in my pocket, every 8 years would use far less time that >that >> I've saved over the years - but I'd try Alt-SysReq-R before hunting >for >> an SSH client. >> >> > > >The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal. Other >than that, I don't recall it ever failing for me either. > >Dale > >:-) :-)
You said it! *gasp*horror* :) Call the exorcist! -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
