I installed wdm to see if I got the same problem as you, but mine seems to work fine. I am using the latest potato, not the stable branch. I also have console-tools installed with it, with no ill-effects.
If I had to guess, I check to make sure you do not have xdm installed at the same time as wdm. As that might be the problem?
Anyway, to answer your question...
You can boot into single-user mode from the lilo boot prompt by adding the word "single" after what you normally type.
For example, if you normally type
lilo boot: Linux
Then you should type
lilo boot: Linux single
and you will go to a direct console shell for root.
However, I do not think that this is necessary in your case. You can obtain a console even from wdm by pressing <ctl><alt><f2> and logging in as root or any other user. Anytime you are in X or wdm/xdm, you can get a console window by pressing <ctl><alt> and <f2> through <f6> at any time to get up to 5 different console windows. The X-server always runs on the 7th virtual console, so you can return to X-Windows or wdm by pressing <ctl><alt><f7>.
Also, you don't have to use dselect just to check or remove a package. To check if you have xdm installed, just type (at a root prompt):
[prompt]# dpkg --status xdm
To remove the package completely, just type:
[prompt]# dpkg --purge xdm
Hope this helps,
-Mitch |
