Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:47:37PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:42:37PM -0400, dman wrote: | > | Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like | > | this in Debian? | > | > So that you, the admin, can organize the runlevels in whatever

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:42:37PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like > | this in Debian? > > So that you, the admin, can organize the runlevels in whatever way you > feel like without any (initial) interference from the installer.

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | Hmmm, I was kind of wondering why no-one had suggested using 'linux 3' yet, | I guess that's why... at least if 'linux single' still works on Debian the | original poster should be able to get around his xdm problem. Thanks for

RE: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
> -Original Message- > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 10:39 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: > |

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | Hi Karsten, | | Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a | console) by simply typing - | | linux 3 | | - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name | you have assig

RE: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Tony Bartholomaeus
able to modify config files to your heart's content. Bartman -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 9:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HELP, caught in a login loop on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -04

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am new to Linux > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386 > > I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login. > > When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Would you please inform me, how I can boot Linux and stop it from | starting xdm and X-Windows. You can use Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get a Virtual Console (Ctrl-Alt-F7 is where X runs by default). You can use a virtual console

HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread gorgon
I am new to Linux I just installed Debian GNU/Linux stable 2.2.23 for i386 I am caught in a continuos loop involving X-Windows login. When I boot, the computer start xdm and then goes right away to the X-Windows login. The problem is that X-Windows is not configured right, and I am getting multi