From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 5:54:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from johnson.mail.mindspring.net (johnson.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB1F37B404 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:54:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-001flfmyep252.dialsprint.net ([168.191.85.142] helo=ASGARD) by johnson.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NaEZ-0007DJ-00; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 08:54:40 -0500 Message-ID: <002401c19782$734f3d00$6400a8c0@dominion.us> From: "Ciro Maietta" To: , References: Subject: Re: cycling X Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:51:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Monday,07 January, 2002 08.36 Subject: cycling X > 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. > [snip] > > 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! > I suppose its too much to hope for that you can boot into single-user mode into a shell instead of xdm? I beleive it's a -s as the "boot:" prompt, but don't quote me. -CM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message