Virtual terminal

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.)