From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNwZF-0003uw-PK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:21:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1079E0654; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42BFE0654 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so10497008gxk.10 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=UjS4RXrxJLdcSXsIThtUO4aUmKFOVVsKTWt6esKv5Jc=; b=NZ10A5SuG3LT/A3QIsf0Cy9ug7OCboXpolbG0SYaszieEzkhufGcMcnlmEQX/2OS6K 2ZbQ2sCz7ylmdvmKSu4tzBcviG/EwWZXdGGLiUIEsvOCka/uuJrKGScxyQtu4GW3eH/R G/QAfOqGeNrSDwri4AKA2T75k+NNL9aoLeMbc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EL2FL//o+QfclI5HwVMXgY3M1UISrfkWVjr7sYvKnKPKPllYuVfuCKxVPuAGLgXgfC F5Dv+alavWcL1yxjN5rMP/IWwp5bhsm+I3zk9kpffA5d12XFtgd53Rxm8xVe14jOUtuK oHKwrG7w4eC0djqJ54PIYSPTYbYBaE1yeOknM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.96.1 with SMTP id t1mr4192597agb.9.1246918903207; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0907061417x3b59b2afs88cbd472e87e2cb8@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0907061417x3b59b2afs88cbd472e87e2cb8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907061521o298a6fa6sefbd0e460578fe29@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 68736e64-18d7-4e64-be6b-ad20a58242bb X-Archives-Hash: 215fd96af0c2432a7b812bed2ed91ec8 On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able >> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. >> >> What is the gentoo way to do that? > > It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a > "startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to get > out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll restart > itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and then sudo > /etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). You can then > rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you want to do. sudo > /etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up. > > Several of you suggested "/etc/init.d/xdm start" or so to get it (re)started. It doesn't work. Instead the start-stop daemon complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never seen this before an I'm baffled. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD