Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:03:01 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Joseph Marah" <marahkeh@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD X11/GNOME/KDM issue Message-ID: <14989d6e0703300503v86cb203r78dc256fac540e05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <759434.40470.qm@web51412.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <460C2758.7040908@daleco.biz> <759434.40470.qm@web51412.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On 30/03/07, Joseph Marah <marahkeh@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi KK, thanks. I have tried ctrl+ald+bspace but got a black screen for a split sec abd got right back to KDM login. ALT+CTRL+Backspace shuts down the X Server the hard way. A Desktop Manager (KDM, GDM, XDM) is supposed to restart after a session is ended, which means that the login screen comes back... >Also tried ctrl+f1, ctrl+f1 etc but go nowhere. Yepp, but if you try ALT+CTRL+Fx (where 1 >= x <= 8) you'll get a console login screen. Here you'll be able to login as root. > I can get in single user mode but no edit previleges as I am not root. still trying different things. hanks tho. Nope, you're root if you boot into single user mode. But / is mounted readonly, only. If you boot into single user mode the savest thing to do is: fsck -p mount / -o rw mount -a fsck will first check your file systems so that you don't operate on a dirty FS, e.g. after a crash. If you rebooted into Single User mode and there was no crash before, you can skip this step. mount / -o rw remounts the root filesystem read/writable. mount -a mounts every fs listed in /etc/fstab (that doesn't has "noauto" set as an option). Make sure you'll do a umount -a mount / -o ro before you reboot, otherwise your file systems will be fscked.
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