From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 15:24:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D51E37B401 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f9EMOIY86083; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:24:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Chris Huisman Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: xdm problems: urgent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First this should be done in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Use ctrl-alt-F1 to get a text prompt. then a) killall xdm, or more specifically b) kill -TERM `cat /var/run/xdm-pid` On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Chris Huisman wrote: > I have created an rc.local file that calls .../xdm, so now my machine brings > up a graphical login screen on boot. The problem is, I am unable to type in > a username or password. I don't know what's going on. Is there any way to > get around this? I mean how do I boot into a non-graphical login prompt, or > cancel xdm when it comes up? I can't type anything into the console window > either. > > Thanks, > > Chris. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message