Destroyed x.org

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 2 14:48:10 UTC 2004



On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, achoens at frontiernet.net wrote:

> So, I boot to GRUB and remove rhgb from the kernel arguments.  But, rhgb
> is still used, and everytime it screws up.  By the time the system is
> booted, X is respanwing like crazy and you can't log in even at
> non-graphical screen.  I go to tty2 and type in root and it blinks and
> it asks me for my login again.  No opportunity to enter my password.
> 
> So, from the grub screen how can I disable rhgb and boot to 3 instead of
> 5?  I've thought about using the rescue cd to edit my grub.conf file,
> but I don't understand why editing the kernel args at boot doesn't
> work.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas on how I can eliminate X from my boot
> sequence long enough to roll-back X.
> 
> BTW:  does anyone have any idea why X.org 6.8.1-12 trashed my
> installation?

Sounds like removing 'rhgb' worked, but adding '3' didn't. I'd try
'single' instead of '3'

I might have seen '3' not working before - but not sure. Perhaps its a
bugzilla item.

Satish




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