AAO 8GB/512MB Linpus - Hangs at X cursor

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  1. creading

    creading

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    Hello,
    While trying to get my wife's netbook to connect to my Samba server, I changed the login user name for the netbook from the default "user" to "jo" using

    usermod -l jo user

    Which I understand should change just the username and nothing else.
    After the next reboot, the machine starts up and then hangs with a black screen and just the white X cursor. I've tried numerous reboots with various key combinations, but it always boots the same. Is there a way of booting the netbook into a terminal so that I can undo the changes?
     
    creading, Sep 15, 2009
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    Japser

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    Your problem is called 'DontVTSwitch', that is an option in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf which prevents you from getting a text-console with ctrl-alt-F1.
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    I wonder: what does ctrl-alt-backspace do?
    In many linuxes that kills the graphical environment ('X-server').
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    AFAIK 'lilo' is the program that does the booting.
    Not sure at all if this applies:
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    As a last resort: make a bootable usb-stick, it must be a linux one, ( Puppy-Linux ? ), boot, mount ssd, edit, etc.

    HTH, --Japser.

    PS: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-2.html#ss2.3
     
    Japser, Sep 15, 2009
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