On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:35:40 +1300 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Jim, > On Nov 3, 2004, at 11:45 PM, John Rye wrote: > > Does Ubantu use run-levels? > > Of course it does, it's a Linux :-) > > But "everything" runs at all available run-levels, by default. Ahh, now I begin to understand what's happening - it's that 'fault' thingy raising it's ugly head again eh?? :-)) I was thinking in terms of editing /etc/inittab to force text mode until the gdm/kdm/$HOME permissions thing was sorted out. > > The only difference between "X" and "text" is the invocation of gdm (or > possibly kdm if the system has been dragged into the kde world), so you > can always remove the gdm invocations from /etc/rc*.d. Future package > upgrades might put this back, I'm not sure. But Ubuntu 4.10 Warty has > no package upgrades save security ones. > > > If the system is dual-booting surely lilo or grub will permit logging > > on in text mode? > > You probably could start in single-user mode, or just let it start up > normally and switchback to a text console. Yes, that's the way I was thinking. I recently had to try and trouble shoot a similar problem where the user had installed with autologon and later attempted to apply some KDE updates from within KDE. The upgrade failed when her dial-up connection dropped and because the system appeared to have frozen, she hit reset and got the resulting chaos. > > The problem with "Linux" is that so much user-instruction is based on > the specifics of the distribution that it comes with. Yes, that's always a problem too :-)) I've only been back in the *nix world for 4 years after a break of 10 or 12, so I'm learning head over foot too! And it's real hard to trouble-shoot remotely if you can't get the diagnostic material too! Must get a copy of this Ubantu thingy and have a play. Cheers John (The NI lurker)
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