[lug] Getting X started - or, more properly, stopped

[rip6 at rip6.net]

John Starkey wrote:
> 
> Thus spake Kenneth D. Weinert (kenweinert at home.com):
> 
> > That much I know - what I can't sort out is how to get logged in while it's
> > doing it's spawn-spamming thing.
> 
> What I was aiming at was getting into runlevel 3 at boot and starting X from there until you have what you want. Then switching back once you're certain it's safe. I haven't found a way to kill X when it's "spawn-spamming" at boot, so I normally do it that way.

One can always just init 1 when it's doing its respawn and eventually it
will take and dump you into runlevel 1 where you can update your
inittab file. Or you can do as I've done in the past and just edit the
inittab file in between the respawning madness and and execute init q
when done.

Mark