From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 8:41: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu (pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu [130.132.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A8314D1F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from denis.ostrovsky@yale.edu) Received: from mercury.cis.yale.edu (do33@mercury.cis.yale.edu [130.132.143.247]) by pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25119; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (do33@localhost) by mercury.cis.yale.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21240; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:40:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mercury.cis.yale.edu: do33 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Ostrovsky X-Sender: do33@mercury.cis.yale.edu To: Gerald Smith Cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Locked in X-login on boot In-Reply-To: <15250588214180@NWC.WHECN.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Gerald Smith wrote: > If I login with a wrong name or password I get the login incorrect message > in red. When I give the correct login name and password, the window > disappears and it seems that something is happening, but it just comes back > with the same login window again and I can't get out of this mode. Either > this is the way it should work and I am just to ignorant to see what I need > to do, or it is not working correctly. > > If someone out there would give me a hand with this without having to go and > reinstall completely I would appreciate it. Hmm, can you shut down X completely (using ctrl-alt-del)? If not, you could always boot into single user mode (-s switch) and then edit whatever file you want after you mount the file systems. Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message