getting out of x

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:31, Rudi Chiarito wrote:

> I think the original poster might have run into one of those situations
> when X tries to start over and over - and over again. As soon as you
> switch to one of the consoles and type a few characters, X switches to
> vt7 again, just to fail once more and so on. Entering the username in
> such cases gets annoying; entering the password borders on the
> impossible or desperate. The quickest options are rebooting (preferably
> in runlevel 1/3) or connecting through SSH/terminal.

I am not the one who posted the original email, but I experienced
exactly as you describe, 2-3 times now and it is annoying.

Don't know what was/is causing it, maybe can try to view the X log(s) or
something to see if there is anything there.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"It's only funny until someone gets hurt...Then it's hilarious!"