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*- On 4 Dec, Nancy this-address-is-valid McGough wrote about "trapped in an xdm loop?" > I'm in the process of setting up an old 486 with Debian Linux > (slink) and I seemed to be trapped in X Windows. When I type > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace it just restarts xdm with the login and > Password prompt. Typing a login and password doesn't help because > I get a blank blue screen and the mouse doesn't work. Pressing > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at this point also throws me back into the xdm > login/Password prompt. I tried restarting the system and it boots > into this login/Password prompt. I tried typing Ctrl+C while it > was listing all the things it was doing and could not stop it > from running xdm. I tried booting from the boot floppy I made and > it said "boot failed". I can boot off the Rescue floppy but I > don't know what to type at the prompt to get to a point where I > can edit my config files so it won't start xdm at boot. FYI, this > happened when I was trying to get my mouse to work and I saw an > archived message from this list that said try "xdm stop" so I > tried that and now I'm in this loop. > Ctr+Alt+F1 will take you to the first virtual console. Login as root and issue the command '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. This will stop xdm until you reboot or restart it. If you don't ever want xdm to start just remove it, 'dpkg --remove xdm'. I suspect that something is wrong with your .xsession file. If it cannot launch a window manager or other program it will die and revert to xdm. Look for lines that begin with exec. pjr