Thanks very much for the help.
Ctrl Alt F1/F2 had no effect I'm afraid and I was not able to get into single user mode. So I got a bit radiacal and forced a startup error by pulling out the RAID card. I then logged in as root.
I looked for gdm as suggested below. I found gdm.conf in /etc/X11/gdm/ and set debug to true and turned of the starting of X11 by the judicious use of a #. This got me into text mode at next reboot, with the RAID card back in. Fortunately all is well and I am now doing a backup of data before I try to find out why Xconfigurator still is unable to configure a graphical screen.
Thanks very much for all your help; my heart rate has returned to normal and my stomach is now back where it should be. Though I do keep my data backed up it changes frequently and though it was only 2 days since last I did a backup it would have meant a lot of work to get things back to normal.
Thanks again and I shall keep you informed when I solve the problem.
Regards, Steve Lundqvist
Pietro Abate wrote:
try to boot in single user mode, disable gdm (or kdm) and have a look at the Xserver log files. if 'startx' works from console, gdm should work fine as well... To disable gdm is usually enough to put exit 1 in the gdm startup script in /etc/init.d/gdm (I don't remember if this is the default rh location ... but look for something similar...)
p
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:26:20AM +1000, Steve wrote:
How might I get to a text login so that I might get at the startup files. I am not sure which files I should be looking for or where they are (rc? files I guess).
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