Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:43:13 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> Cc: William Manley <wmanley@intergate.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help. Message-ID: <ef10de9a05081004432bcf0982@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050810132152.7932cce7.albi@scii.nl> References: <42F95459.5080208@intergate.com> <20050810132152.7932cce7.albi@scii.nl>
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On 8/10/05, albi@scii.nl <albi@scii.nl> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400 > William Manley <wmanley@intergate.com> wrote: >=20 > > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. > > My problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into > > Gnome. When I logged in as root the system just looped back to the > > logon screen. I then assumed I had configured my .xinitrc file wrong >=20 > xdm,gdm,kdm,wdm do not use your .xinitrc (but they can use your > .Xsession or .xsession file), .xinitrc is only used with the command > startx >=20 > > so I booted the install cdrom into Fixit mode and tried to mount the > > root filesystem on the hardisk which the operating system would not > > let me do. The following are the commands I typed with the output. > > > > mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt > > operation not permitted >=20 > you could instead boot from harddisc in "single mode" (sp?), then remove > xdm or configure xdm properly or use gdm or use gnome-session in your > .xinitrc Single user mode. You can get to it at the boot menu, think it's option 6, or you can exsacpe to the boot loader and type in "boot -s" and hit enter. Once your in single user mode you will need to mount your partitions, "mount /dev/ad0s1f /usr", if your disk is dirty you will need to run fsck and then remount the root partition in read/write mode before you can edit your config files. I'm not sure how XDM etc. is started but I would try in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ first. if a xdm startup script is in there rename to something like xdm.sh-disabled. then type exit to boot into multi user mode and login as root.
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