From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 01:04:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85FD16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:04:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from infoserve.com.sg (mail.infoserve.com.sg [202.148.161.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4726C43D45 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:04:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuckwai@evoluxion.com.sg) Received: from mail (mail [127.0.0.1]) by infoserve.com.sg (coremail) with SMTP id 3A2AD25AF62; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:04:58 +0800 (HKT) Received: from EVOPC101 (unknown [203.123.22.189])fQAJALmHEUGkDxa9.1 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:04:58 +0800 (HKT) X-TEBIE-Originating-IP: [203.123.22.189] From: "Lam Tuck Wai" To: "'Bill Moran'" Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:04:54 +0800 Organization: Evoluxion Pte Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <20040803133550.6dad3fc8.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Thread-Index: AcR5gFtvMbyH+jxNTnGukarCn0wvQgBB3ThA Message-Id: <20040805010458.3A50825B060@infoserve.com.sg> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help needed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:04:59 -0000 Hi.. I have managed to solve my problem. My PC is working now. Many thanks to: Bill Moran Jerry McAllister Giorgos Keramidas Tuck Wai -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com] Sent: 04 August 2004 01:36 To: Lam Tuck Wai Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed... "Lam Tuck Wai" wrote: > > I am currently having a huge problem. My KDM refuse to start, so now I > cannot get into my machine. > > Every time it reboots it will goes in a cycle of spewing errors. It was fine > a few hours ago until I change the monitor config. > > My question is how do I stop the KDM from loading during boot up? So at > least I can login as root and replace the new XF86config file. > > I tried booting to single user but I cannot "su". So without root access I > cannot change anything. You do not need to su. In single-user mode, you are root. Once you get a shell prompt in single-user mode, do: fsck mount -a You should then be able to edit your config file, or change /etc/ttys to stop xdm from starting. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com __________ NOD32 1.832 (20040803) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. http://www.nod32.com