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My latest in deep personal stupidity...

scottE avatar
scottE
From Wasilla, not so close to super Indian Food
Who joined July 14, 2003, 12:20 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 15, 2017, 2:09 p.m...
So I've managed to bork X windows on my Indy, possibly by following these instructions here , but probably not to the letter.

So when I rebooted Helicoprion , I get the usual screens on startup, and then an unhelpful black frame once it logs into the user account.

I've been … away, so it's hard to remember what I can/should do at this point. So I tried fiddling with sash from the PROM Monitor. But I can't for the life of my figure out how to copy over the edited Xservers file with my backup, made just before I fiddled with stuff.

This would be easier if I could put it on a network, but I cannot in this case. I also do not have access to anything that could function as a dumb terminal (one of the things I was actually trying to do was get the Indy to have cu installed to fulfill that function, but I was distracted before I could get that to work).

So from the stand alone shell it's not:

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cp /var/X11/xdm/Xservers.backup /var/X11/xdm/Xservers
or
cp dsk(0,1,0):/var/X11/xdm/Xservers.backup /var/X11/xdm/Xservers
or
cp dsk(0,1,0):/var/X11/xdm/Xservers.backup dsk(0,1,0):/var/X11/xdm/Xservers
or
cp dsk(0,1,0)|/var/X11/xdm/Xservers.backup dsk(0,1,0)|/var/X11/xdm/Xservers
or
cp /var/X11/xdm/Xservers.backup:dsk(0,1,0) /var/X11/xdm/Xservers


Or any variation thereof, and help in sash is really useless.

Anyone know how I can fix this?
Scott Elyard cgfx.us
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Black Cardinal
From Albany, OR USA
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Wrote the following at June 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m...
Even if X isn't working, you should still be able to remotely log in over the network, or use the serial console. From a regular shell prompt shut down the Xserver with /usr/gfx/stopgfx , copy the backup files into place, and then restart X with /usr/gfx/startgfx .
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scottE
From Wasilla, not so close to super Indian Food
Who joined July 14, 2003, 12:20 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 15, 2017, 4:19 p.m...
Black Cardinal wrote: you should still be able to remotely log in over the network, or use the serial console.


Alas, neither of these are an option.
Scott Elyard cgfx.us
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miod
From Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Who joined Oct. 9, 2009, 2:44 a.m.
Wrote the following at June 15, 2017, 10:38 p.m...
Why not boot single user ("stop for maintainance" on powerup, then get a prompt and enter "single"), mount your disks, and cp from the single-user shell?
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scottE
From Wasilla, not so close to super Indian Food
Who joined July 14, 2003, 12:20 p.m.
Wrote the following at June 16, 2017, 11:22 a.m...
miod wrote: Why not boot single user ("stop for maintainance" on powerup, then get a prompt and enter "single"), mount your disks, and cp from the single-user shell?


Perfect! Thank you! That solved the issue. (Though I didn't have to mount anything, just log in. And I used mv instead of cp.)

To be honest, I'd long forgotten that was even an option. But I've been trying to bring up Carcharodon , and I lack access to a terminal of any sort.
Scott Elyard cgfx.us
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