Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:17:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lam Tuck Wai <tuckwai@evoluxion.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed... Message-ID: <20040804231704.GD8941@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040803170817.BCCCA25AF0A@infoserve.com.sg> References: <20040803170817.BCCCA25AF0A@infoserve.com.sg>
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On 2004-08-04 01:08, Lam Tuck Wai <tuckwai@evoluxion.com.sg> wrote:
> I am currently having a huge problem. My KDM refuse to start, so now I
> cannot get into my machine.
> [...]
> My question is how do I stop the KDM from loading during boot up?
> [...]
> I tried booting to single user but I cannot "su". So without root
> access I cannot change anything.
Booting into single-user mode doesn't require a "su". You are probably
not booting into single-user mode.
Interrupt the boot loader by pressing SPACE at the prompt that says:
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt
Then enter single-user mode by:
boot -s
When the single-user mode shell starts, check your filesystems and mount
them as read-write:
# adjkerntz -i
# swapon -a
# fsck -p
# mount -u /
# mount -a
Try to locate the file that fires up kdm (it's probably /etc/ttys, but I
don't use KDE so I might be wrong about this). Disable kdm and exit the
single-user mode shell.
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