> -----Original Message----- > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 10:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > | Hi Karsten, > | > | Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. > straight into a > | console) by simply typing - > | > | linux 3 > | > | - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with > whatever name > | you have assigned to your Debian partition in /etc/lilo.conf). > > FYI (Tony and others) -- Debian's default is to have all runlevels > identical. Thus switching to runlevel 3 won't help. > > Instead you may want to make note of the 'single' argument that can be > passed to the kernel which causes it to skip the init step and simply > ask for root's password. You can also pass an init argument, such as > > linux init=/bin/bash > > to change what init program is used. This is essential if, for > example, PAM becomes broken and all logins fail. > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Hmmm, I was kind of wondering why no-one had suggested using 'linux 3' yet, I guess that's why... at least if 'linux single' still works on Debian the original poster should be able to get around his xdm problem. Thanks for the info dman, I thought separate runlevels would be standard on all distros (it has been on all the others I've used). Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like this in Debian? Bartman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
