Good evening!

The story is as follows: the rules of the file /usr/share/X11/xkb , swapped the "ru" with "en", reboot, now when booting the English language is missing, and the login and password in English. How to interrupt the loading of the graphical shell when loading in order to correct the config?

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    In the grub download there is a boot console mode. Or when everything is loaded, you can use the ctrl + alt + F1-12 keyboard shortcut or various variations with the F keys to switch the console in text mode.

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      All right, only crumpled. Go to the console Ctrl + Alt + F1 and right back. The layout for the console is set separately from X11 - Vladimir Gordeev
    • Yes, it helped, but not quite. ctrl + alt + f1 produces such a beautiful picture: imageshost.ru/photo/52937/id1174184.html - tfiwsrets
    • I have the same picture on a virtual machine climbs out when I cut down the system. - metazet

    Variants.

    1. Boot into recovery mode (during grub loading - press Shift, select recovery mode, then select "Drop to root shell prompt"). You will have root rights, and you will be able to change configs.

    2. Boot from a live cd or similar. Mount the disk with Linux and fix the config.

      There is a small but likely possibility that the system has a keyboard shortcut to stop the x-server. By default, up to version 9.04 was Ctrl + Alt + Backspace