From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HxP4I-0000Gz-9u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:11:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5AF9mJI007912; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:09:48 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5AF5XZb003280 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:05:33 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id C20583246B4; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:50:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dslb-082-083-050-063.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.50.63]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19D03246B3 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:50:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:05:27 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X server won't load Message-Id: <20070610170527.7a7feb86.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20070610150712.a157d4b6.hilse@web.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: fadda58a-d665-4b00-91e1-3ea0ea3fcbaf X-Archives-Hash: b6b925370bef9ddc2b496e0dbb94296b Hi, On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:10:19 -0400 "Andrey Vul" wrote: > last time I did ssh was when installing LFS; been a looong time and I forgot. > > Refresh my memory, please? > I have sshd on my laptop, putty on my desktop Just start sshd (it's usually configured to run straight out of the box on gentoo), "/etc/init.d/sshd start", or permanently: "rc-update add sshd default" You can then use e.g. putty from the desktop and connect to the laptop, providing your normal login data. You'll have a command line (_if_ the kernel is alive and kicking), can issue the "dmesg", inspect the Xorg log file and try to kill the running, broken X server. Basically what you would do w/ a serial line. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list