Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On 4/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > > XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > > system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
> > >
>
> > I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way.  If you want to
> > reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work.  Naturally
> > the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot.
>
> Ctrl+Αlt+Backspace kills X which then respawns.  To kill xdm you could press
> Ctr+Alt+F1 to get into the console, login as root and run:
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap.  That avoids the need for a reboot.
>
> If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login screen.
> Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it works fine.

I tried that. XDM refused to die.  That's why I did the reboot.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD