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If [[Sugar]] is broken or the [[Terminal]] activity will not start, you can switch to a virtual terminal (for looking through your filesystem and typing in commands) by: |
If [[Sugar]] is broken or the [[Terminal]] activity will not start, you can switch to a virtual terminal (for looking through your filesystem and typing in commands) by: |
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* on builds prior to 11.3.0, type Ctrl-alt-Neighborhood (Neighborhood is the same as F1 on a normal keyboard, and looks like this: [[Image:Mesh key f1 small.png]], or |
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* on builds in 11.3.0 and later, type Ctrl-alt-f2, |
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* your screen will become white text on a black background. |
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* hitting Enter (may have to do this twice) - the screen will print something like: |
* hitting Enter (may have to do this twice) - the screen will print something like: |
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OLPC build 653 (stream ship.2; variant devel_jffs2) |
OLPC build 653 (stream ship.2; variant devel_jffs2) |
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You are now root on a virtual terminal and can type commands as you would in Terminal. (Be careful - as root - the superuser - you can do damage to your system, so make sure you know the commands you're typing). |
You are now root on a virtual terminal and can type commands as you would in Terminal. (Be careful - as root - the superuser - you can do damage to your system, so make sure you know the commands you're typing). |
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To return to Sugar, logout by typing ctrl-D and then |
To return to Sugar, logout by typing ctrl-D and then |
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* on builds prior to 11.3.0, ctrl-alt-Home - Home is the same as f3 on a normal keyboard and looks like this. [[Image:Home key f3 small.png]], |
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* on builds in 11.3.0 and later, type Ctrl-alt-f1, or Ctrl-alt-Neighborhood, |
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(There is some bug that cause this procedure to fail some of the time. You can type ctrl-alt-Group, then hit return to get the other console running.) |
(There is some bug that cause this procedure to fail some of the time. You can type ctrl-alt-Group, then hit return to get the other console running.) |
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Revision as of 05:40, 22 September 2011
If Sugar is broken or the Terminal activity will not start, you can switch to a virtual terminal (for looking through your filesystem and typing in commands) by:
- on builds prior to 11.3.0, type Ctrl-alt-Neighborhood (Neighborhood is the same as F1 on a normal keyboard, and looks like this:
, or - on builds in 11.3.0 and later, type Ctrl-alt-f2,
- your screen will become white text on a black background.
- hitting Enter (may have to do this twice) - the screen will print something like:
OLPC build 653 (stream ship.2; variant devel_jffs2) Kernel 2.6.22-20071121.7.olpc.af3dd731d18bc39 on an i586
xo-05-29-d2 login:
- type "root" (no quotes)
- hit Enter
You are now root on a virtual terminal and can type commands as you would in Terminal. (Be careful - as root - the superuser - you can do damage to your system, so make sure you know the commands you're typing).
To return to Sugar, logout by typing ctrl-D and then
- on builds prior to 11.3.0, ctrl-alt-Home - Home is the same as f3 on a normal keyboard and looks like this.
, - on builds in 11.3.0 and later, type Ctrl-alt-f1, or Ctrl-alt-Neighborhood,
(There is some bug that cause this procedure to fail some of the time. You can type ctrl-alt-Group, then hit return to get the other console running.)