Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:54:32AM +0100, James Ashburner wrote:
>> Rob Malpass wrote:
>>
>>> What I need to do is boot, stop X from starting, dpkg-reconfigure to get
>>> the correct settings, and gdm start (repeat until settings are correct)
>>> but as I can't start X (or even login!) I'm a bit sunk.
>> You could try:
>>
>> # telinit 3
>>
>> To drop to runlevel 3 which should kill off the X server
>
> Not on any Debian-based system. Runlevels 2-5 are identical. Ubuntu
> may have changed them, but I don't think they have.
>
> Hugo.
>
>
I'll bear that in mind should I ever be faced with a Debian-based system
then.
James
