[ale] RH6: Switch to tty0 & back to Xwin

[Mike Nolan]

(After re-reading all this, I bet you guys are saying "Boy, what an
Idiot!!!" Is there anybody local here in Atlanta that I can bring this
thing to so you could show me some stuff, ...I could like, paint your house
or something,  I *know* how to do that.)

Because I didn't know to use Ctrl-Alt-F7, I did "shutdown -r now" thinking
the machine would come back up in X.

It doesn't, but comes up back to a terminal login, however, when I log in
as root, I can't change to any directory, it's like I'm a user named "root"
with no directories that I can change to.   

It looks like they don't exist from *wherever* I am.  So I can't (or don't
know how to) load any files into an editor and look at them to see what
they contain.  I can't even get to /etc/inittab to see what's in it.

Eric Z. Ayers (and others) wrote:

>Usually, it's Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the graphics window.

This does nothing now...  :-(

smnoldelinux at mediaone.net wrote:
>From your root login, you can do a
>ps ax|grep X and see your X session still running.

yields:
638 ?        S         0:00  /ect/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
778 ?        S         0:00  /ect/X11/prefdm -nodadmon

Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
>ps -aux ought to tell you whether or not X is really running.  

This gives me a big list of stuff that seems to be running...

I don't know what line to look at to see if X is running :-(

Mike \n;
Dallas, GA