On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 17:59 -0500, creed462 wrote: > So I halted the system. > If you have another PC, make sure its networked to your Linux box and has ssh installed (PuTTY if its windows). This may well let you in if the console config is broken so you can investigate and fix or clean up the problem without a reboot. > any idea. > Forcing a logout should restart X - you can see it restart every time each time you logout. > also Control- Alt- Backspaced stopped restarting x with latest version > You can modify that. On my distro (Fedora 10) its action is specified by /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete In older distros it was set by the "ca:" line in /etc/inittab Martin