Neil Bothwick wrote:

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.

And if you are paranoid, like me, you can do a "ps aux | grep xdm" to make sure it is dead.

I have to mention that I had a problem with KDE a couple times. I would close it, stop xdm using the script, do a kill and it was still running several minutes later. I had to reboot that time because I wasn't sure what to do next. When kill -9 < process # >doesn't work, something is . . . . fishy.

I hate that he had to reboot though. Sounds to much like winders. O_O

Dale

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