On Mon Mar 27 2000 at 16:20, pm wrote:
> Somebody messed around with my X server and now I have a graphical login
(someone, not you of course :-)
> (RedHat 6.0 - kernel 2.2.5) which doesn't work and respawns itself with
> CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
> So I can't use Linux.
Yes you can.
Boot into another runlevel, eg: at the LILO boot prompt, do:
linux single
to boot into single user mode.
If /etc/inittab is totally hosed, then use init=/bin/bash (or
something similar to that).
> In the past I've come around that by editing /etc/inittab through a
> rescue disk, but this time, every time I edit it and reboot,
> /etc/inittab gets restored back as it was before editing it.
Then it seems like it never got changed... sure you aren't editing it on a
readonly filesystem?
> During the boot I can read something like this:
> "INIT: booting inittab version 2.77
> INIT: missing action in line [58]"
It can be fixed.
/etc/inittab is a very critical file... why are you messing around
with it so much to have this happen?
Cheers
Tony
