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On 2016-03-21, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:52:26 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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>> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe |
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>> console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. |
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> After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails to |
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> load - as it does with monotonous regularity every eight years or so. |
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Except X failing to load and falling back toa console never seems to |
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the failure mode I'd run into. It's more like X starts up and the |
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keyboard and mouse don't work, so I've got to go dig out my laptop |
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(which was hopefully not left at the office) boot it up and then ssh |
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into the temporarily headless machine and kill X. |
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Grant |
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