On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a > >> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head > >> examined. > > > After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails to > > load - as it does with monotonous regularity every eight years or > > so. > > Except X failing to load and falling back toa console never seems to > the failure mode I'd run into. It's more like X starts up and the > keyboard and mouse don't work, so I've got to go dig out my laptop > (which was hopefully not left at the office) boot it up and then ssh > into the temporarily headless machine and kill X.
It's that long since I've had X fail to start (probably because I don't use binary drivers) that I can't really remember, but I don't recall every having to do this. Even so, having to look for something else to SSH in with, when my phone is always in my pocket, every 8 years would use far less time that that I've saved over the years - but I'd try Alt-SysReq-R before hunting for an SSH client. -- Neil Bothwick Znqr lbh ybbx!
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