Dear friends,
I am using Solaris 10 x86 under Virtualbox. Now when I start the system, and login with the root account, the following message pops up on the screen.
Code:
Starting Desktop login on display :0....
Wait for the desktop login screen before logging in
The login prompt doesn't let me login, although I am already logged in.
This is really irritating, what is causing all this?
And could you also please tell me how I can change my login mode to text(console). I tried to do it the linux way by editing /etc/inittab, 3 for text and 5 for graphical, but I cannot find the default entry for that in the inittab file.
Looking forward to your kind replies.
Thanks in advance!
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