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I think I inadvertantly edited some system files, and now my PC (pop os linux) won't fully boot.

I get to enter the password for the disk encryption, but I don't get to the login screen. I suspect it's an issue with an Xorg file.

Is there a way to boot into a windowless session? So that I can try to fix it from the command line.

With F11 I can select some boot options, but the recovery one is not working, unfortunately.

ElRudi
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After (semi-successful) boot, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F2, or Ctrl+Alt+F3 etc. to access tty1 or tty2, or tty3 and so on.

One of them may be taken by your (messed up) GUI environment, but (assuming only the GUI is messed up) others should allow you to log in and start a shell.

When out of GUI, you may be able to switch ttys with Alt+F1, Alt+F2 etc. (no need for Ctrl).

Kamil Maciorowski
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