F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 22 03:59:01 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl at kvack.org> said:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:24:39PM -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > Ctrl+Alt+F1 no longer works (or rather, it brings up the X server 
> > instead of Ctrl+Alt+F7). F2-6 should be fine.
> 
> No, it does not.

Then your system is broken, and it doesn't matter if X is in F7 or F1,
apparently a console switch won't work in any case.

At that point someone that knows how to use root to fix things reboots
into text mode (or even single-user mode).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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