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On March 22, 2016 1:37:16 AM GMT+01:00, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>>>> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a |
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>>>>> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head |
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>>>>> examined. |
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>>>> After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails |
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>to |
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>>>> load - as it does with monotonous regularity every eight years or |
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>>>> 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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>> It's that long since I've had X fail to start (probably because I |
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>don't |
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>> use binary drivers) that I can't really remember, but I don't recall |
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>> every having to do this. |
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>> Even so, having to look for something else to SSH in with, when my |
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>phone |
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>> is always in my pocket, every 8 years would use far less time that |
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>that |
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>> I've saved over the years - but I'd try Alt-SysReq-R before hunting |
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>for |
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>> an SSH client. |
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>The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal. Other |
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>than that, I don't recall it ever failing for me either. |
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>Dale |
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>:-) :-) |
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You said it! *gasp*horror* :) |
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Call the exorcist! |
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Joost |
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