[Wolves] Help - can't get into Ubuntu anymore

[Andy Wootton]

Tim Childe wrote:
>
>     > 2. Kill X (including gdm) using the init script.
>
>     sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>
>  ...
>  still don't understand the command though :-(
sudo
    to execute the rest of the command as superuser

/etc/init.d/
    the path of the directory where the initialisation scripts live

gdm
    the Gnome Display Manager startup/shutdown script

stop
    the parameter to tell it which option you want