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Milton

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] stucked in GDM

Hello,
I forgot to create more users besides the admin, and I set GDM as default login, now when I start Arch, it takes me directly to gdm and because I only have one "user" I can't login, so I'm stuck in gdm.

How can I go back to the old login screen? (tried alt+f# but of course that didn't work)

EDIT: I just noticed this "The inittab method is recommended for various reasons, one being that it will allow you to boot directly into framebuffer mode from GRUB. This is an advantage should the graphics driver crash in X, for example, you would not be forced to fix your system from a live cd or through other needlessly complex means."

That probably means I will have to "be forced to fix my system from a live cd or through other needlessly complex means"

Last edited by Milton (2009-06-19 22:17:38)

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: [SOLVED] stucked in GDM

At the boot prompt hit 'e', append 3 to the kernel line ie

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/4b72099b-4334-46b2-801a-6a308604d543 ro 3

Once done hit 'b' to boot, and go from there.

Milton

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] stucked in GDM

I already tried that but unfortunately I have GDM set as a daemon.

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: [SOLVED] stucked in GDM

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to vc1 ?

Milton

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Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] stucked in GDM

Thanks that did the trick.