after booting up press <ctrl><alt> F1 to go into a console terminal.
logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just move it, if you dont want to delete it.... shutdown -r now worked for me this morning, anyway. david -----Original Message----- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2001 15:11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X-windows in startup I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape out of this during the boot process?