From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 5:39:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lincolnfp.com (mail.lincolnfp.com [209.84.160.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6351337B402; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from domino.clearpath.lan by mail.lincolnfp.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 13:39:07 UT Subject: cycling X To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-ID: From: mheyes@lincolnfp.com Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:36:07 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on L-Notes/LincolnFP/BerisfordPlc(Release 5.0.6 |December 14, 2000) at 01/07/2002 08:36:16 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD 4.4, tracking stable, with X 4.1. I managed to get my box into a state where it tries to start XDM, fails and drops to terminal, then tries to restart XDM, rapidly, over and over. I can't start a virtual terminal, can't kill XDM. What happened is I had enlightenment running, and made an incorrect dependency with pkgdb for enlightenment. After I rebooted, XDM couldn't start E so just kept coming back to XDM. Before I figured out the problem was with E, I thought it was an X configuration problem, so I ran xf86config and reconfigured X. When I tried to restart X and it didn't work, I then figured out the problem was with E and deinstalled/reinstalled it. I started E up with only one problem: mouse didn't work correctly. So I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config file and changed the mouse device from /dev/sysmouse to /dev/psm0 (PS2 mouse). Rebooted, then had the cycling X problem. Is there a way to get to a shell so I can rerun xf86config, or edit the XF86Config file? Sorry for the cross-post; I wasn't exactly sure which list to send this to. Please cc: me as I am at work and can't subscribe to the lists. Thanks for your help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message