telinit may be used to switch runlevels without reboot.
Also...
ctrl-alt-backspace may kill a misbehaving X.
ctrl-alt-F1 may switch to console from X.
;o) -----Original Message-----
;o) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
;o) Sent: 14 January 2000 01:25
;o) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;o) Subject: Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.
;o)
;o)
;o) "james.fogg" wrote:
;o)
;o) > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X
;o) boots it locks up
;o) > (video driver experiments.. ooops).
;o) >
;o) > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X
;o) (cause it wont
;o) > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a
;o) command line login
;o) > for about 2 seconds then X server starts.
;o) >
;o) > How can I stop X from starting when I see the login?
;o)
;o) login as linux1 and edit file: inittab.
;o)
;o) # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
;o) # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
;o) # 1 - Single user mode
;o) # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do
;o) not have networking)
;o)
;o) # 3 - Full multiuser mode
;o) # 4 - unused
;o) # 5 - X11
;o) # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
;o) #
;o) id:5:initdefault:
;o)
;o) change thius final line to:
;o)
;o) id:3:initdefault:
;o)
;o) Sergio Korlowsky
;o)
