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#1 2011-05-20 05:40:05
- zippymorocco
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[SOLVED]is there away to login into shell instead of Gnome
I have lost the ability to login at GDM to get to Gnome. This happened just after I added a user. It just hangs at the login screen thinking. I feel that I could fix this if I could get to a command prompt. Is there away to bypass the GUI?
Thanks
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#2 2011-05-20 05:49:33
- stlarch
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Re: [SOLVED]is there away to login into shell instead of Gnome
Remove gdm from you daemons and/or set /etc/initab to level 3 instead of 5.
edit: or how about ctrl+alt+one of your fkeys like f3. I'm goin to bed now.
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#3 2011-05-20 05:58:17
- dodo3773
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Re: [SOLVED]is there away to login into shell instead of Gnome
If you press
ctrl+alf+f1
it should take you to a console. You could also go f2 f3 etc..
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#4 2011-05-20 13:32:52
- zippymorocco
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Re: [SOLVED]is there away to login into shell instead of Gnome
Thank you for the answers. I will give this a try and let you know how it goes.
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#5 2011-05-20 18:37:19
- zippymorocco
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Re: [SOLVED]is there away to login into shell instead of Gnome
Perfect! now I can see my errors.
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