From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 7:21: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC90637B404; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (swordfish.energyhq.org [192.168.0.1]) by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A70024197; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:21:04 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Miguel Mendez Organization: Energy HQ To: mheyes@lincolnfp.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cycling X Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:20:53 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020107152104.4A70024197@energyhq.homeip.net> 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 On Monday 07 January 2002 14:36, mheyes@lincolnfp.com wrote: Hi, > 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'll assume you can reboot the box and have root access. Boot in single user mode (boot -s) , mount / writable (mount / -uw), edit the /etc/ttys file and disable xdm (set the entry to off), then ctrl-D to boot up, and now you can work without XDM firing up, then fix the thing and restore the entry in /etc/ttys. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message