Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:55:23 -0400 From: "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" <MROTHENBERG@exchange1.PRIA.com> To: 'Mark Hummel' <mhumm@ispchannel.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD-questions' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HELP! I made the same mistake!!!(Michael Rothenberg) Message-ID: <CB5D74F381BDD311944F0000F802076603A1CBAF@EXCHANGE1>
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Heh heh. I had to turn off my machine with out shutdown. This is not a good thing to do and I was worried I might loose something. However, this box is pretty new and I had just done a reboot so I knew I probably wouldn't loose a whole lot. When I turned it on again I went into single user mode by hitting the prompt for the manager and then doing boot -s. This only mounts / as read only so x cant start and lock you into that nifty graphical login underworld. After that I manually mounted the various file systems. Or I might have done fsck before mounting everything. I cant remember. fsck should be able to fix up your drives and sync them. If I remember correctly, after fsck was done it made me reboot and I started the single user mode again. After mounting everything by hand I was able to edit /etc/ttys and remove the edits that caused the trouble. Anyway, that's how I fixed it. It might not be the right way, but it did work for me this 1 time. I had tried all the regular stuff: esc, ^c, ^d, ^x, ^z, ^alt bksp (or what ever that special X kill combo is from Complete Fbsd ), logging in as the prompt says, and banging on the keyboard. None of that stuff worked. If there is some other key combo I should have tried let me know }:) -Michael -----Original Message----- From: Mark Hummel [mailto:mhumm@ispchannel.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:52 PM To: ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL; FSD Subject: HELP! I made the same mistake!!!(Michael Rothenberg) I tried the advice of a fbsd'er other than Michael (below) which involved changing the etc/ttys file. I did as directed and now I'm stuck in an ineffective graphical login like Michael describes below. How do I get back to a single user system so I can undo the ttys file and attempt Michael's fix? Mark "the frustrated" "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" wrote: > /etc/profile (might have the exact file wrong) is read first and only once. > Usually .login/.profile as your login continues. The user files, > .cshrc/.shrc/.*rc depending on the shell, are read for every shell that is > started unless otherwise specified. > > The book: Unix Shells By Example has a great set of diagrams explaining the > subtle differences between c shell, borne and korn shells and what files get > read when... > > FYI, I made an error when trying to get KDE to start as login prompt and > ended up being stuk in X login screen. The secret kill keys didn't work nor > could I actually log in. It was interesting and then I had to hard reboot > without shutting down. That was not fun. After entering single user mode and > fixing the problem along with the other things that happen when power is > abruptly stopped I chose not to have a window login just to be safe. > > -Michael the Unix newbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:27 AM > To: Mark Hummel > Cc: FSD > Subject: Re: How can I boot directly into KDE? > > > I am using KDE, but I have to run it by using the startx command. I'd > > like to boot directly to KDE. I've been told that this is very > > possible, but I still can't figure out the process. > > Well, I'd personally put startx into my .login for the primary > user of KDE... I'm not sure what other problems may arise from that > though. Like, is .login read every time a new shell is opened... or? > > Rick > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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