From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-42324-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1FjziA-0003R6-LT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:24:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4REMKoT003168; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:22:20 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4REGFxr028496 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:16:16 GMT Received: from crichton (cpe-68-203-174-213.houston.res.rr.com [68.203.174.213]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4REGEoq021151 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:16:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter Kelly <linuxpete@houston.rr.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED] Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:16:14 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605262014.44753.linuxpete@houston.rr.com> <1148730996.4885.15.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1148730996.4885.15.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605270916.14057.linuxpete@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: de9d3169-6ded-42d8-9538-99035f041d7a X-Archives-Hash: 853d64b1c6d790f69ab52c7042457ad4 On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: > > Holas, > > > > > > Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' > > comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an > > idea? > > dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get > unloaded and there's a "please reboot" kernel message sitting somewhere > on one of your terminals (it happens :) > > If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's > not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap` > to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again. > That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. Thanks. Peter -- If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list