Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)

From: Jay O'Brien (jayobrien_at_att.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Jonathan Chen wrote:

    > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
    >
    >>Andrew Jones wrote:
    >>
    >>>Jay O'Brien wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.
    >>
    >>Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes
    >>first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I
    >>do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal "The display
    >>server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it
    >>is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes
    >>before trying again on display :0." and then it comes back on.
    >
    >
    > Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
    > gdm process.

    There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have
    any effect. However.....

    In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both
    results in a "No such process" error on gdmlogin process and GNOME
    restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in "poll" state
    does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop
    out of the top display.

    Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an
    answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho!

    Jay

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