[Techtalk] My X display is fubar

[Robyn Manning]

Hi Mary

In the original email this lady couldn't get to a command prompt and
could only go into failsafe mode. I was going to tell her to change her
runlevel back after everything was sorted out.

Robyn

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 23:49, Mary wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:37:30PM +0930, Robyn Manning wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > You need to edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel from 5 to 3 ie
> > 
> > id:3:initdefault:
> > 
> > note the 3
> 
> Note that this will change it permanently - ie there will be no login
> screen upon reboot (until you change it back to 5).
> 
> If you want to go to runlevel 3 just once, execute "init 3" as root.
> 
> -Mary.
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