On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:44:57PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. > In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the > 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came back here for surely 30 times. > > I tried 'init 3', 'kdm stop' but nothing seems to work (the last one is > funny, but there is no message about syntax problems; so what would it > do, anyway ?) > > Yes, please, give me back the 'Console' option ! >
If you can get to an xterm (Konsole?), su to root then type #shutdown now which will take you to single-user mode which _should_ stop kdm and give you a shell after you enter the root password. If you can't get an xterm, reboot to single user mode by passing -s to the kernel (which passes it on to init). If that still doesn't work, pass the kernel init=/bin/sh which will give you a shell and bypassing all of init. The root filesystem will be mounted ro, you'll need to mount it rw to make the changes you need. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]