On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 4:05 pm, Charles Landau wrote:>Elvio Caruana wrote: >>Charles, >> >>When X starts and fails, press CRTL+ALT+F1 to go to console mode. >>Log in as root, then edit /etc/inittab with your favourite editor. >> >>You probably didn't know that you can go to a console by >>CTL+ALT+F[1-6] .. and that will solve you many problems. > >*He said he can't boot. Thus he can't edit inittab*
Right. I actually did know about CRTL+ALT+F1, but once in console mode I don't get a login prompt.
In that case, have a look at /etc/inittab. You should see something like
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
once per vertual console, usually from 1 to 5 - it may be that console 1 is missing. This is common to prevent it stamping on bootup messages. Try doing CTRL+ALT+F2 instead.
All consoles are there in /etc/inittab. Console 1 was simply busy running X. The answer was to use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to terminate X.
It's good to know about the other consoles, though. Thanks.
