/etc/inttab typo

[Hubertrum]

I have amended the etc/inittab file so that I boot up and go to LXDE automatically as per MAGPI 2 . Unfortunately I made a type entering /bin/logon where it should have been /bin/login. Now when I reboot it spots the error, waits 5 minutes, spots the error, waits 5 mins etc.

How do I get past this to login and correct the error?

[jojopi]

If you only changed the tty1 line, then you should still have gettys running on the other virtual consoles, which you can reach with Ctrl+Alt+F2 to F6.

I am not at all convinced that editing inittab is a good way to automatically launch a GUI, by the way. The latest raspi-config in the recommended raspbian wheezy spindle image has an option to start a GUI in a more normal way.

[Joe Schmoe]

1) What does "spindle" mean?

2) What "more normal" way does it use?

[jdbennet]

Spindle is a tool (set of scripts and paches) to roll raspian images.

Cant you just plug your SD card into a linux PC and edit the /etc/inittab file to be correct?

[jojopi]

1) What does "spindle" mean?
2) What "more normal" way does it use?

It enables a display manager (lightdm) and configures it to auto-login. Which is definitely more normal than configuring a text auto-login and putting "startx" in your bash profile. And does not break SSH or the serial console.

I should probably say "the foundation's recommended raspbian wheezy image". As opposed to any raspbian wheezy images not built with spindle, targetting beginners, and including raspi-config.