From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:17:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070429201750.3f126e25@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704291900.00767.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Hello Mick,
> > I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot.
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by
letting the system start another instance.
killall -9 xdm is probably needed here, possibly followed by a zap.
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Neil Bothwick
Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-29 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 21:29 [gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-28 21:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-28 22:07 ` Dale
2007-04-29 9:06 ` Mick
2007-04-29 17:19 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-29 17:59 ` Mick
2007-04-29 19:17 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-04-29 19:44 ` Dale
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