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From: Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:47:13
Message-Id: 44789D3F.1040801@vista-express.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED] by Peter Kelly
1 Peter Kelly wrote:
2
3 >On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>Holas,
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 >>>Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping'
17 >>>comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an
18 >>>idea?
19 >>>
20 >>>
21 >>dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get
22 >>unloaded and there's a "please reboot" kernel message sitting somewhere
23 >>on one of your terminals (it happens :)
24 >>
25 >>If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's
26 >>not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap`
27 >>to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again.
28 >>
29 >>
30 >>
31 >That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command.
32 >Anyhow, everything is 'started' again.
33 >
34 >Thanks.
35 >
36 >Peter
37 >
38 >
39 >
40
41 I didn't know about it until a little while back. That thing comes in
42 handy.
43
44 Dale
45 :-)
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