Would like to get back my command prompt!

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 4/24/2005 8:00 AM James Alexander Cook wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +0000, Michael Neeff wrote:
>  
>
>>A newbie with installing FreeBSD 5.3...I installed X and got excited to 
>>direcly log on to X (xdm) with the dialog box. I modified the lineto turn 
>>xterm on:
>>ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon" xterm ON secure.
>>Now I am stuck in a login loop... I would like to configure X and install 
>>KDE, but it is stuck on the ChooseSessionListWidet I can only choose 2 
>>options DEFAULT/FAIL SAFE and CANCEL and nothing happens in either case... 
>>hitting CTRL+ALT_+BKSPACE does nothing
>>
>>How do I just login to the command prompt without X opening directly?? I 
>>think I tried option 6 and it gives me a command prompt but I cannot edit 
>>any file.
>>    
>>
>
>I have two ideas.
>
>1. After X has opened, press CTRL-ALT-FN where N is a number from 1-8.  That
>   should bring you to a text-based virtual terminal.  To go back to X, type
>   CTRL-ALT-F9.
>
>2. If 1 doesn't work, try booting in single-user mode.  From there, you can
>   remount / read-write, mount /usr (to get access to an editor like vi),
>   then "vi /etc/ttys" and turn off X11.
>
>   # mount -u -o rw /
>   # mount /usr
>   # vi /etc/ttys
>
>   I don't remember for sure, but I think you'll want to type
>
>   # mount -a
>
>   before exiting the single-user session to boot the system; I don't think
>   your filesystems are mounted automatically otherwise.
>
Or this should work.  Open a xterm window and modify /etc/ttys (i.e. 
comment out the line that starts xdm).  :)

Drew

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