Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:00:08 -0400 From: James Alexander Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> To: Michael Neeff <cool_mike_21@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would like to get back my command prompt! Message-ID: <20050424150008.GA82618@angel.falsifian.afraid.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F7FC24EC9362571959751CC92F0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY103-F7FC24EC9362571959751CC92F0@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +0000, Michael Neeff wrote: > A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to > direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn > xterm on: > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon" xterm ON secure. > Now I am stuck in a login loop... I would like to configure X and install > KDE, but it is stuck on the ChooseSessionListWidet I can only choose 2 > options DEFAULT/FAIL SAFE and CANCEL and nothing happens in either case... > hitting CTRL+ALT_+BKSPACE does nothing > > How do I just login to the command prompt without X opening directly?? I > think I tried option 6 and it gives me a command prompt but I cannot edit > any file. I have two ideas. 1. After X has opened, press CTRL-ALT-FN where N is a number from 1-8. That should bring you to a text-based virtual terminal. To go back to X, type CTRL-ALT-F9. 2. If 1 doesn't work, try booting in single-user mode. From there, you can remount / read-write, mount /usr (to get access to an editor like vi), then "vi /etc/ttys" and turn off X11. # mount -u -o rw / # mount /usr # vi /etc/ttys I don't remember for sure, but I think you'll want to type # mount -a before exiting the single-user session to boot the system; I don't think your filesystems are mounted automatically otherwise. > > Thanks in advance. > Mike - James Cook james.cook@utoronto.ca
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