From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 20:53:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0888C16A405 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:53:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA97A13C459 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:53:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2TKroSt019489; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:53:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <460C2758.7040908@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:53:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Marah References: <64540.69130.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <64540.69130.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:53:53 -0000 Joseph Marah wrote: > [Snip description of issue, basically KDM/GDM conflicting config or similar.] > To cut matters short, I have been locked out of > my system. how can I get back in? Any help will > be appreciated. Thanks. > Hi, Joseph! I "wrapped" the text of your last paragraph, because you had only placed newlines at the end of each paragraph. It's helpful to place a newline every 72 characters or so. In short, I've not got an answer for KDM, but you should be able to drop to the console with CTL-ALT-BKSP --- and, if that doesn't work, you should be able to access a virtual console with CTL-F1, CTL-F2, etc. Edit the offending file (rc.conf?, /etc/ttys?) and try "kill -HUP `pgrep Xorg`". And, if you can't get a virtual console, you'll want to reboot into single-user mode, I guess. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.