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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 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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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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