[Cialug] ubuntu 10.04

[Barry Von Ahsen]

can you do

sudo init 1

from a terminal?


-barry


On 4/20/2011 2:14 PM, Dan Hockey wrote:
> I've been messing with an OpenEmbedded appliance with ubuntu in vmware player and I did a apt-get install gdm to install a very bare gnome which everything worked, but now I need to get back to the command line with no apparent way of doing so in gnome. I can't ssh into it because I mucked up the networking.
> Everything Google has found requires the command line to fix.
> Someone suggested ctl+alt+f1 but all that does is kicks me out of vmware and back into windows.
> As a last resort I guess I could delete the vm and start over.....if so how can I install gnome and avoid making the same mistake?
> -dan
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