From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 12:24:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106EC37B419; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp260.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.150] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NgJh-0000Lm-00; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:24:22 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1D8EE50BEB; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:26:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:26:11 -0500 From: parv To: mheyes@lincolnfp.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cycling X Message-ID: <20020107202610.GA89107@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: mheyes@lincolnfp.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 in message , wrote mheyes@lincolnfp.com thusly... > > 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. ... do hard reboot; boot in single user mode. if fsck doesn't run, then, by itself, do it by hand, say "fsck -p". mount / in read-write mode. if needed, any other filesystem, too. then edit appropriate file which starts xdm, /etc/ttys is one possibility, to disable automatic start of xdm. reboot in multiuser mode. solve your xdm related problems; enable xdm again. optionally, reboot again. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message