[WBEL-users] Pilgrims progress -- New install after up2date no keyboard

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 10:17 AM 1/3/2005, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>>
>>I found a keyboard (a compaq one) with a long enough cable to reach over 
>>to the monitor......
>>
>>Same behavior.
>>
>>Nothing works in level 5.  level 3 behaves the same as before
>>
>>One more observation.
>>
>>When I login as user and startx, the desktop icons show up, but the task 
>>bar on the bottom is empty.
>>
>><c-a-d> brings up a strangely empty dialog, but knowing the content, I 
>>was able to just logoff.  This brought me back to character mode.  I 
>>really logged out, come in as root, and things work.
>
>Just a note...If you have run level 3 as the default in /etc/inittab and 
>are starting X with the startx command, you can exit from X with <control> 
><alt> <backspace>.  This ends X and brings you back to run level 3.
>Ben

I had best be writting all of these notes down somewhere.  For the next mishap!