From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 16:36:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA24716 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:36:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24709 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA04203; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 11:06:12 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971031110612.23072@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 11:06:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: sporkl@dti.net Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: X References: <19971031105750.00873@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from sporkl on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:31:15PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:31:15PM +0000, sporkl wrote: > > > It didn't load X, and it just had the ambiguous output error after that. > If I do this, then have to reboot because X causes my monitor to futz, > will it keep the logfile? Hmmm. I didn't know that was happening. Have you not been able to get out of X? You should be able to stop it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Otherwise you should be able to return to text mode with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (for /dev/ttyv0) or another F key. To get back to X, use Alt-F10, assuming you've followed my suggestion to take the getty off /dev/ttyv9. Otherwise, if you have to reboot, do it with Ctrl-Alt-Del if you can. If that doesn't work, turn the power to your monitor off (so you don't damage it), wait 3 minutes, and then press the Big Red Button. If the log file doesn't turn up in your home directory, fsck may put it in the /lost+found directory on the file system which contains your home directory. Greg