Well after getting up this morning, and coming over to my office (about two meters away), I turned the monitor only to be greeted by a warning screen for upgrading glibc. Basically all I had to do was stop kdm. Now I know I have some degree of experience at the command line, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember what the command would have been. I did a quick search for “stop kdm” in Google and got the command needed for the job. Since I didn’t have a proper working sudo (great for security but can get annoying), I had to first switch to root:

su - root

And then stop kdm (k desktop manager):

/etc/init.d/kdm stop

After that it was just having certain services such a cron restarted by the scripts and rebooting the computer. This time however I was treated to Sidux’s login screen instead of the black screen caused by the broken xorg.conf I received from the live cd upon installation. Well that’s all there is for now since I have to get back to studying.