Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a >>>> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head >>>> examined. >>> After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails to >>> load - as it does with monotonous regularity every eight years or >>> so. >> Except X failing to load and falling back toa console never seems to >> the failure mode I'd run into. It's more like X starts up and the >> keyboard and mouse don't work, so I've got to go dig out my laptop >> (which was hopefully not left at the office) boot it up and then ssh >> into the temporarily headless machine and kill X. > It's that long since I've had X fail to start (probably because I don't > use binary drivers) that I can't really remember, but I don't recall > every having to do this. > > Even so, having to look for something else to SSH in with, when my phone > is always in my pocket, every 8 years would use far less time that that > I've saved over the years - but I'd try Alt-SysReq-R before hunting for > an SSH client. > >
The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal. Other than that, I don't recall it ever failing for me either. Dale :-) :-)
