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 1MNwsY-00062T-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:41:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A340E0350; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com (mail-yx0-f191.google.com [209.85.210.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD2CE0350 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so6224100yxe.32 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:41:41 -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=pXD0ZtvbydkwuvmAwoGZ+NdmNcnIZWwDiE4jDrzYsgM=; b=KGDhuCmY6eX8Pi053YEhPyzHhChs5eAjCtljlp36JW1WpIg4yFTFaIV7t9vKpMDjWQ C6ZGpkhRT6d57lMRJABcrB1si5uePvtFkEm5tfao7ErJ+T7kezJxl2jg1CmZWixHTPbu aVx/eJO9Rg2k2W7lfMguhqqD4L8qIeCJjaZeA= 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=OH4Xedpo8jcfVx+dyBM9nYvtWt4MWgNr8vdCS/vMP8tT/GwXyGEVYdCb51YSJRMkEY ne8fpEhxGOaK3SP0IPDxl6uS8Jj0P4PSUneenDyzKywIS/idgVremKgZDeNdzD3M2A3u sTg9UWI0jsJ6z2gT/ujmHTUHaMRTpspaBUBro= 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 10.90.88.17 with SMTP id l17mr4594242agb.24.1246920100657; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:41:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0907061531n198a70f2l638a73b9ea95ff89@mail.gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0907061417x3b59b2afs88cbd472e87e2cb8@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50907061521o298a6fa6sefbd0e460578fe29@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0907061531n198a70f2l638a73b9ea95ff89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:41:40 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907061541v6f7fa827s1a2b70f5f40f1c8@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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1eebc220-dff0-4389-a6b8-5e23e82e38d3 X-Archives-Hash: 502741d4eb131dc55483762f4e950359 On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul >> Hartman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrot= e: >>>> 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. =A0It doesn't work. =A0Instead the start-stop daemon >> complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't >> exist. =A0And no I didn't mispell it. =A0I've never seen this before an >> I'm baffled. > > Hi, > > You haven't told us how you start X, which I think would make it > easier to determine how to stop it. Maybe you don't use XDM at all, in > which case the above suggestion wouldn't have any relevance to your > situation. > > I haven't told you because I don't know. I do know that I was using KDE when I still had X. But I set that up over 5 years ago and I've forgotten all the details. But there's no sign of *dm in /etc/init.d, other than xdm, which acts pretty normal outside of the fact that it fails. It goes through motions, says some things work by putting [OK] in the right margin, and all that. If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. ++ kevin --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD