Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

[Dale]

David Relson wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul
>> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@×××××.com>
>>> 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
>>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> This weekend I needed to stop and start X a lot because I was
> experimenting with running dosemu from a tty command line and the
> DOS application I'm running under dosemu hangs the command line.
>
> Using an ssh session (from another machine) I found that
> "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" works to stop X. However,
> restarting is a bit tricky since "/etc/init.d/xdm start" fails because
> of files in "/var/lib/init.d/*/xdm".  If one runs "rm -rf /var/lib/init.d/*/xdm"
> then runs "/etc/init.d/xdm start" one is good to go.
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>
>

Then /etc/init.d/xdm zap may be easier and cleaner.

Dale

:-)  :-)