[TriLUG] recovering from X crash
Rick DeNatale
rick.denatale at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 19:18:44 EST 2006
On 2/26/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> The problem I was really trying to solve was how to get the
> login prompt back on the machine with X crashed and have
> that machine running in console mode. Do you know how to do
> that?
Well, if X isn't running then alt-Fn should get you to a console. If
X is "half running" then ctrl-alt-Fn might work.
If the machine is no longer listening to the keyboard though, I don't
know that there's any alternative other than ssh or reboot.
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