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

From: yuri van Overmeeren (yuri.vanovermeeren_at_reston.demon.nl)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:37:26 +0100
To: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>

    Jay O'Brien wrote:

    >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
    >
    When you started with a login manager the ctrl-alt-backspace=restart X.
    I use kdm, If for some reason I want to exit to terminal I use a
    terminal (logged in as root) and type:

    killall kdm

    You could try that for gdm.

    -yuri

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