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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 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 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 phone |
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is always in my pocket, every 8 years would use far less time that that |
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I've saved over the years - but I'd try Alt-SysReq-R before hunting for |
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an SSH client. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Znqr lbh ybbx! |
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