Going back to the command line?

Mathiasdm · 02-10-2005, 01:07 PM

I just installed Debian on a virtual partition (VMWare).
I can't seem to get into CLI. Whenever I change the runlevel in /etc/inittab and reboot, the runlevel goes back to 4, and I'm in X again.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work either.

I can't get a resolution higher than 800*600 until I install VMware-tools, and I need to be in CLI to do that (X mustn't be running).

sigsegv · 02-10-2005, 01:40 PM

CTRL + ALT + F1

Mathiasdm · 02-10-2005, 02:30 PM

Doesn't work. Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't do anything.

m_yates · 02-10-2005, 02:36 PM

You can try opening a terminal and typing "init 1" and see if that works. I you use kdm to login, you can select a console login option so that X will be killed and you can just get a text prompt.

sigsegv · 02-10-2005, 02:38 PM

Interesting ... Does the keyboard work at all? Are you able to log in?

If nothing else, look in the initab and see what runlevel you're coming up to and then remove the symlink for your (g|k|x)dm from /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/ where N is the runlevel.

Edit: Hehe ... This post bears the mark of the beast

Mathiasdm · 02-10-2005, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by m_yates
You can try opening a terminal and typing "init 1" and see if that works. I you use kdm to login, you can select a console login option so that X will be killed and you can just get a text prompt.

That worked. I managed to install VMWare tools.
However, X died on me ;-) I'll take a look at the configuration files later. I'm going on holiday tomorrow, so it might be a while before I figure it out.