Broken gdm with on chromebook (SOLVED!)

Joel Roth joelz at pobox.com
Wed Sep 3 10:59:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:50:41AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> After a good run of a couple years, I got stubborn about trying to
> get a larger cursor for my dad, who has vision problems, on a
> Acer C7 chromebook running Trusty.
> 
> Since an upgrade that I did yesterday, I believe the system
> uses upstart for the boot process.
> 
> The short story is that I was using icewm, and when I
> couldn't get the big-cursor package to do anything decided
> to install gdm, to get the default window manager running.
> 
> The system services start as usual, but instead of a login
> prompt, I now get a blank screen. 
> 
> Although I believe grub-pc was installed to /dev/sda
> there is no grub startup screen.
> 
> Is there any way for me to get a shell on boot?
> 
> For Chromebooks, I recall it is very difficult to create a
> bootable USB.
> 
> Thanks for any hints!

Okay, I found one!!!!

Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a login prompt, saving my bacon.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/83907/how-can-i-boot-into-recovery-mode-if-it-hangs-booting-single-user

Thanks :^)


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