[lug] Using consoles

[Ian Hall-Beyer]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, David Outteridge wrote:

> Yesterday, whilst logged in as myself, I wanted to log in as root.
> Normally I would use su, but this time I did not know how to start up
> all the stuff I needed so I wanted to log in from the login prompt.  I
> used C-A-f2 and got a login prompt.  The login was ok.  But when I
> tried to start X it did not work for the reason that display 0 was
> already in use.  Can anyone explain this a little, please?  How do I
> do it?  Can it be done?

It sounds like you were already running X (since you said you had to hit
*CTRL*-Alt-F2) as a user. Which would explain why the display was already
in use. 

If you want to do something as root, just do it from a terminal window
within X and su from there.

-Ian

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