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Oh, how did I do it this time...good question.
I followed the guide for changing the inittab file to get xdm to start. Well, when it starts, I log in my user and everything seems happy until it gives me the choice of defualt/safemode, so I think, that's my only choice, click that, and nothing but grey hashmark screen. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, it just restarts xdm.
Question is, since I'm unable to get the linux cd to boot it from the install disk, and I've tried some nooby-concocted tricks on a Knoppix CD met with failure, what is there left to do? Is there anything I can do? Shouldn't I be able to somehow stop the boot process before it executes xdm? Please help.
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Well I don't have any idea why you're only options are safemode or the other, but you can press CTRL + ALT + F2, to change to arch default login method. Then enter you're username, password, fix inittab, until you find out why you are not booting into you're installed desktop environment.
I say this because I don't know if you're using a desktop environment and what kind of environment you have set up. But this would be a temporary fix.
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exactly what I'm after. Thanks a ton.
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exactly what I'm after. Thanks a ton.
...it appears there is something outside of the /ect/inittab and xinitrc files that is broken. Probably something I've done...or didn't do....we'll see...very mysterious dr. watson...
And, no, I didn't really mean to post a reply, I was trying to edit the above post. :x LOL.
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What do you have in your ~/.xsession file? It should contain a line to load your DE/WM. Example: for KDE:
exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde
for xfce4:
exec /opt/xfce4/bin/startxfce4
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