Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:24:04
Message-Id: 20070429201750.3f126e25@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM by Mick
1 Hello Mick,
2
3 > > I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot.
4 >
5 > /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
6
7 zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it
8 stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by
9 letting the system start another instance.
10
11 killall -9 xdm is probably needed here, possibly followed by a zap.
12
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14 --
15 Neil Bothwick
16
17 Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>