Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Ostrovsky <denis.ostrovsky@yale.edu> To: Gerald Smith <smithg@mail.nwc.whecn.edu> Cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Locked in X-login on boot Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906031139350.14786-100000@mercury.cis.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <15250588214180@NWC.WHECN.EDU>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Gerald Smith wrote:
> If I login with a wrong name or password I get the login incorrect message
> in red. When I give the correct login name and password, the window
> disappears and it seems that something is happening, but it just comes back
> with the same login window again and I can't get out of this mode. Either
> this is the way it should work and I am just to ignorant to see what I need
> to do, or it is not working correctly.
>
> If someone out there would give me a hand with this without having to go and
> reinstall completely I would appreciate it.
Hmm, can you shut down X completely (using ctrl-alt-del)? If not, you
could always boot into single user mode (-s switch) and then edit whatever
file you want after you mount the file systems.
Dennis
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Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University
E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33
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