From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 12:27:43 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 8094E16A406 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D774413C4D0 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:27:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so804418ugh for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:27:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=R5O4kHNwgXIc0t5JAFsL+CWgQYxL46CALJG5hZQzl9j/Bckq6Vc3RvJOcoH+ebCHImcxOexAgdUsz8nB/CPT6SWaNu7yTjTo0JyFyZWjunM2Uql47JrtlcFw1VmR7eCocTBjPsOxaMrLZwViIVzr9stw7q4n9JSawlSOMusJozQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ADDAgd2jJxs/IpcYPeCb9yPIaLnEEqYYGUk6u5RieEsVIqayXfBTA+dKmb755/moRzKeWdL+Sq5xFGoMWLlR5eezwqKvFtNDMaEEJVbKO9gbYR86UPDBPOk8y7Pu+/Q40ELOnOCgDCKbV5V2g9oRP4mRCeC7Clv51sI+Y3uAgrI= Received: by 10.82.136.4 with SMTP id j4mr3709058bud.1175256181904; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.153.6 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14989d6e0703300503v86cb203r78dc256fac540e05@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:03:01 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Joseph Marah" In-Reply-To: <759434.40470.qm@web51412.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <460C2758.7040908@daleco.biz> <759434.40470.qm@web51412.mail.re2.yahoo.com> 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: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:27:43 -0000 On 30/03/07, Joseph Marah wrote: > Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login. ALT+CTRL+Backspace shuts down the X Server the hard way. A Desktop Manager (KDM, GDM, XDM) is supposed to restart after a session is ended, which means that the login screen comes back... >Also tried ctrl+f1, ctrl+f1 etc but go nowhere. Yepp, but if you try ALT+CTRL+Fx (where 1 >= x <= 8) you'll get a console login screen. Here you'll be able to login as root. > I can get in single user mode but no edit previleges as I am not root. still trying different things. hanks tho. Nope, you're root if you boot into single user mode. But / is mounted readonly, only. If you boot into single user mode the savest thing to do is: fsck -p mount / -o rw mount -a fsck will first check your file systems so that you don't operate on a dirty FS, e.g. after a crash. If you rebooted into Single User mode and there was no crash before, you can skip this step. mount / -o rw remounts the root filesystem read/writable. mount -a mounts every fs listed in /etc/fstab (that doesn't has "noauto" set as an option). Make sure you'll do a umount -a mount / -o ro before you reboot, otherwise your file systems will be fscked.