[olug] startx / init 5 hangs, ctrl-alt Fx doesn't work

[T. J. Brumfield]

If init 3 doesn't work, you can boot to a live disc and then chroot over.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Rob Townley wrote:
>> On a Fedora 10 box in which i have Sugar, gnome, and KDE installed.
>> And tried to change the gui keybindings to be more useful,
>> startx and init5 hangs with the dots spinning around the mouse pointer.
>>
>> Unfortunately, sshd must not be enabled and attempting to get to a
>> ctrl-alt Fx virtual terminal fails.
>
> Note, F-10 switched X from vt7 to vt1, so CNTL-ALT-F1 in particular
> functions differently.
>
> Otherwise, what video hw/driver is in use here?  (I can note that recent
> nvidia drivers fail spectacularly, especially combined with kde).
>
> -- Rex
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