I seem to have locked myself out of the XServer with some over zealous FireWall rules. How do I get into the terminal without booting into the XServer?
Without rebooting the box? I don't know, but I'm sure there is a way.
If you reboot the box, at the GRUB splash screen say "c" to change or "e" to edit, I forget which is the right one. When you see the three lines of text which will get booted, one of them will be like "linux blah blah root=/dev/hda". At the end of this line, add a space and a "3" so it says "yadda yadda 3".
The computer will now boot into text mode, wherein you can change your firewall rules. Then simply type "init 5" to make it go graphical again. The changes you made during boot do not get saved, so no further action is necessary.
Not an expert on this, but should work.
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