Knoppix as webserver

[Stephen]

I could not get back to the GUI after that, and I had to finally shut down manually by doing the shutdown -r now thing.
F1-F4, Alt-F5 (or F7) would not work.

Try init 5 next time that will get you back to GUI.

[champagnemojo]

Just hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and you will be at one of (4) Root prompts. F1 thru F4. Alt-F5 (or is it F7?) gets you back to the GUI.

DO NOT tell people to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 again!

I could not get back to the GUI after that, and I had to finally shut down manually by doing the shutdown -r now thing.
F1-F4, Alt-F5 (or F7) would not work.

That's odd...but you can't generalize that to everyone. Ctrl-Alt-F7 always gets me back into KDE.

[RockMumbles]

bubazoo wrote:

DO NOT tell people to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 again!

I could not get back to the GUI after that, and I had to finally shut down manually by doing the shutdown -r now thing.
F1-F4, Alt-F5 (or F7) would not work.

running the knoppix versions I have from cd (which I admit are old):

[ctrl]-[alt]-[f1] thru [ctrl]-[alt]-[f4] are root consoles
and
[ctrl]-[alt]-[f5] returns you to your X session

after an hd install the X session is returned to 'normal' and is at [ctrl]-[alt]-[f7]

~rock

[Dave_Bechtel]

> DO NOT tell people to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 again!

--Hey pal, just because YOU couldn't figure out how to get back into the GUI doesn't mean it won't work for other people.

--If you use Alt-RightArrow or Alt-LeftArrow it scrolls thru all the available VTs. Figure out how Linux works a bit more before you try telling your grandpa how to skin a cat; I've been using various flavors of Linux since ~1996-97.

[LinuXdud3]

totally agreed. newbies shouldn't generalize when THEY can't do it. Linux != Windows. You can ALLWAYS get acces to your system in some way or another. Thats the cool thing.