If you have Xenocara installed, then I assume you can use xedit to modify files on the system. I don't know twm, but it is probably possible to create a new entry in its menu, through which you could run "xterm -e /bin/sh" to override the default shell. If this is not possible using twm, then switch to cwm, which definetely lets do this.
Regards, --ext Sandeep Gupta írta 2024. ápr.. 2, K-n 11:29 órakor: > Very likely that would be issue. The problem is that I am not able to > access a shell for root or the regular user. > On the console, I get logged out immediately. On GUI, fvwm, the root is > able to login. I can launch top and other utilities. > But I am not able to launch xterm. I guess I would have to boot using > external usb, mount the disk and repair it. > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 1:57 AM Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 12:44:01AM +0530, Sandeep Gupta wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I need to access my desktop local machine after I did a sysupgrade -s (I >> > had reasons to do so because some rust libraries were too old for some >> > applications). >> > Sysupgrade seems to have gone fine. Disk is healthy no issues reported. >> > >> > However when i tried to log from the console -- the login message shows but >> > the system logs me out immediately. >> > On the desktop gui too, with only root I was able to login. But running >> > xterm from the fvwm menu fails. >> >> This sounds very much like a situation where the base system and packages >> are out seriously of sync AND your user is et up with a default shell from >> packages (I am guessing bash). >> >> The solution would likely be to log in as root, run pkg_add -D snap -u >> to get the latest snapshot packages, then try to log in as your regular user. >> >> >> -- >> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team >> https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ >> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" >> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. >> -- --Z--
