Greetings,
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Previously, Jay Nugent chose to write:
> > Greetings,
> <snip>
> >
> > You don't EVER have to drop out of X and into a TTY to do work as root.
> Not even to update X? or your video driver? or your login manager? or your
> window manager? or your desktop environment?
In those situations you don't use ALT-F# to perform an upgrade to X. X
is *still* running on the system. You 'telinit 1' or reboot into single
user mode.
--- Jay
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