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David Relson wrote: |
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> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:22:26 -0500 |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> David Relson wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 |
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>>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul |
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>>>> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com> |
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>>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be |
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>>>>>> able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. |
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>>>>>> What is the gentoo way to do that? |
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>>>>> It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a |
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>>>>> "startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to |
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>>>>> get out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll |
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>>>>> restart itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and |
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>>>>> then sudo /etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). |
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>>>>> You can then rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you |
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>>>>> want to do. sudo /etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up. |
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>>>> Several of you suggested "/etc/init.d/xdm start" or so to get it |
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>>>> (re)started. It doesn't work. Instead the start-stop daemon |
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>>>> complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't |
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>>>> exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never seen this before an |
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>>>> I'm baffled. |
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>>>> ++ kevin |
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>>> Hi Kevin, |
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>>> This weekend I needed to stop and start X a lot because I was |
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>>> experimenting with running dosemu from a tty command line and the |
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>>> DOS application I'm running under dosemu hangs the command line. |
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>>> Using an ssh session (from another machine) I found that |
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>>> "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" works to stop X. However, |
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>>> restarting is a bit tricky since "/etc/init.d/xdm start" fails |
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>>> because of files in "/var/lib/init.d/*/xdm". If one runs "rm |
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>>> -rf /var/lib/init.d/*/xdm" then runs "/etc/init.d/xdm start" one is |
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>>> good to go. |
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>>> HTH, |
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>>> David |
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>> Then /etc/init.d/xdm zap may be easier and cleaner. |
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>> Dale |
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> I hadn't known of zap. Indeed it's an easier way to do the cleanup. |
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> However, use it _after_ stop. |
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> I tried it instead of stop. What it does is remove the |
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> /var/init.d/*/xdm files. With them gone, "/etc/init.d/xdm status" |
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> can't tell that xdm has been started and "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" doesn't |
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> do anything. I had to frog around to fix the problem. |
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> Be careful !! |
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> David |
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True, you do have to use it after stop. It is supposed to reset |
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everything to a stopped state. I think it also kills running processes |
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but I have not tested that to see if it does for sure. I just know that |
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it works and does so cleanly. It's certainly a better option than |
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trying to do it manually. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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