Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:18:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: Chris Huisman <chuisman@telusplanet.com> Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: xdm problems: urgent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011014211709.87761A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <GJEMKFBLCDDJGPEAAKJLIEFNCAAA.chuisman@telusplanet.com>
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I think my response got lost - if not excuse the "double post" On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Chris Huisman wrote: > Unfortunately ctrl-alt-F1 does not get me a text prompt. Is there anything > else I can do?? I kind of mis-typed, ctrl-alt-F1 gets you to another console where you login (as root in this case) and then do what I said. Is the keyboard is not responding?? If not, try ctrl-alt-del anyway to shutdown gracefully and go to single user mode on the way back up. If not it seems to me there is not much choice but to power down and go to single user mode upon power-up. 1) break when you get the 9 second message 2) boot -s 3) fsck -p / 3) remove xdm from rc.local and reboot I think BUT AM NOT SURE that you can let the reboot run fsck to repair any other file system problems. As /etc is in the root partition you will be able to edit the rc.local file using vi to remove the xdm invocation. if not then do: 1) mount -a 2) fsck -p 3) then edit rc.local I have done this but inc ase I am giving any bad information here - wait a few minutes and hopefully people will correct what I am saying. g'luck > Chris. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Denault [mailto:doug@safeport.com] > Sent: October 14, 2001 4:24 PM > To: Chris Huisman > Cc: Freebsd-Questions > Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent > > > First this should be done in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > Use ctrl-alt-F1 to get a text prompt. then > a) killall xdm, or more specifically > b) kill -TERM `cat /var/run/xdm-pid` > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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