Re: Keeping X from restarting after killing it

From: Florian Ernst (florian_at_uni-hd.de)
Date: 05/01/04

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    Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:49:51 +0200
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Hello!

    On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
    >
    ^^^^^ Please don't cut the references here.

    > > > > I think this thread is pretty self-explanatory. Actually, I want to
    > > > > install the binary nVidia drivers, and they require me to shut down
    > > > > the X server. Unfortunately, when using the ctrl-alt-backspace
    > > > > interrupt, X instantly respawns.
    > > >
    > > > Open a terminal, su to root, then type
    > > >
    > > > init 1
    > > >
    > >
    > > Huh, going to single user just to shut down a single service?
    > >
    > > > do your business of installing and the like. When finished type
    > > >
    > > > init 5
    > > >
    > > > to get back to graphical login, or
    > > >
    > > > init 3
    > > >
    > > > to get to console-based login.
    > >
    > > On Debian systems the runlevels 3 and 5 are identical by default,
    > > unless explicitely modified by root.
    >
    > Open a console, su root, do a ps -aux and look search for something like wdm, gdm, kdm, xdm, ...

    Rather search by grepping: pgrep -l [wgkx]dm

    > then type /etc/init.d/[wgkx]dm stop.
    > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace your X you'll be in console than and when you want to restart the [wgkx]dm

    I don't use any [wgkx]dm myself, but some people in this thread
    claimed X will shut down after /etc/init.d/[wgkx]dm stop already...

    > do /etc/init.d/[wgkx]dm stop
                              ^^^^
    You mean "start" here.

    > (change [wgkx]dm by the one you found in your ps -aux )
    >
    > Solves everything without having to change runlevel ;-)

    True, but this solution was already posted some time ago in this
    thread.

    Cheers,
    Flo 

    


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