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#1 2011-03-24 01:11:22

skai161
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[SOLVED] Edit rc.conf and without terminal

Oops. Well.. I just finished reinstalling arch again, and I did something pretty stupid..

After I got everything ready, I did a sudo pacman -S xmonad and let that finish, after that, I replaced GDM with slim, and that was working good too. I set slim to boot into xmonad with exec xmonad and I started to reboot. When I came to slims login screen, I did everything normally, and sat there waiting for it to start.

After 5 seconds, I started to realize.. I didn't actually install/configure xmonad.

So, now, I have slim trying to boot into a WM that doesn't exist.. So my question is.. is there anyway I can get a terminal up without any kind of DE or WM running? its just a blank screen after I login. (its not xmonad, I'm sure.) no keyboard shortcuts, menus, nothing.

I just need to get slim out of the DAEMONS in my rc.conf.

P.S. sorry if this is completely stupid. I'm really stuck here. Can't blame a nub for trying though, right?

Last edited by skai161 (2011-03-24 01:19:24)

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#2 2011-03-24 01:14:08

ngoonee
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Re: [SOLVED] Edit rc.conf and without terminal

Boot to a tty (run-level 3)


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#3 2011-03-24 01:15:11

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Re: [SOLVED] Edit rc.conf and without terminal

If you can't get to a TTY with Ctrl-Alt-F{2-6} then you can always boot into run-level 1 and change your rc.conf from there...


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#4 2011-03-24 01:16:53

skai161
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Re: [SOLVED] Edit rc.conf and without terminal

ngoonee wrote:

Boot to a tty (run-level 3)

Haha.. never done that before. Could you explain?

Edit --------------------------

Nevermind, forgot to google before I post.

Thanks, all fixed.

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#5 2011-03-24 01:18:51

skai161
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Re: [SOLVED] Edit rc.conf and without terminal

jasonwryan wrote:

If you can't get to a TTY with Ctrl-Alt-F{2-6} then you can always boot into run-level 1 and change your rc.conf from there...

Thank you for the quick reply, all fixed.

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