[Fedora-livecd-list] xconfig does not work

[Gary Thomas]

Todd Cooper wrote:
> How do I switch to a tty from the GUI?
> Is there a key sequence for X windows  once booted to go back to a
> regular login prompt?
>

Ctl-Atl-F8, followed by Alt-F1..Alt-Fn to switch to virtual
terminal 'n'.

Ctl-Alt-F7 gets you back to X

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> To: Todd Cooper <todd at world.std.com>; fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:39:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] xconfig does not work
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:13 -0700, Todd Cooper wrote:
>> I added small things to the desktop kickstart (attached) and the
>> xconfig no longer works.
>> The biggest change is adding mysql to the rpms to be added.
>> The .ks file attached has xconfig commented out.
>>
>> When I boot it comes up with the X login and when I click on the login
>> user, it starts the login and then goes back to the login screen.
>> Even if I login as root it does the same thing.
> 
> You probably are missing whatever the xsession is trying to run.  If you
> switch to a tty and check ~/.xsession-errors, you'll probably see
> something more enlightening

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