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dopewalker1

Member

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 11

can't run kde nor get to cmd line!

Hey,

I've just reinstalled arch on my laptop and it was running fine but i wanted to run kde straight from bootup so i changed my inittab stuff from 3 to 5 but i forgot to change the last line to run kde... and now everytime i boot up it brings me to an oldschool login with a little console log for "name" on the bottom right...when i log in as me or as root, it wants me to choose a Session Menu "chooseSessionListWidget" with Default/Fail safe and cancel being my only two options. If i pick one nothing really happens, and if i try to ctrl+alt+backspace to quit xserver it brings me back to the login screen!

so basically i just need a way of getting to the command line...

anyone have any ideas?

thanks

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: can't run kde nor get to cmd line!

use a livecd to edit inittab accordingly

VikM

Member

Registered: 2007-11-10

Posts: 50

Re: can't run kde nor get to cmd line!

Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 (F2, F3, ...) to change to text console.

dopewalker1

Member

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 11

Re: can't run kde nor get to cmd line!

thanks the ctrl+alt+f1 did the job. THANKS!

Misfit138

Misfit Emeritus

From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: can't run kde nor get to cmd line!

If you use grub, you can also append the option 'single' to the end of your kernel line, which will boot into single user mode.

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