Author: Craig Goodrich
Email: craig@airnet.net
Web Page: http://www.
Date Submitted: Thu, Feb 19, 1998
Status: New Entry

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Category:  X Windows
Category Listing:  I edited inittab to boot into X but now I can't log in at all. Help!

Issue

I edited inittab as you suggested in X2 but now I get a login 
screen which won't let me log in. How can I get logged in to fix 
the problem? 

Response

 
What's happened is that the X login manager xdm is confused, or you
may be running the wrong version of it for the rest of your setup.

At the lilo (or other loader) prompt, type linux (or whatever)
init=3. This will take you to your normal console login, where you
can find the problem with xdm and fix it.

In the meantime, you might want to put your inittab initdefault back to 3. 

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