Peter Kelly wrote: >On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: >> >> >>>Holas, >>> >>> >>> > > > >>>Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' >>>comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an >>>idea? >>> >>> >>dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get >>unloaded and there's a "please reboot" kernel message sitting somewhere >>on one of your terminals (it happens :) >> >>If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's >>not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap` >>to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again. >> >> >> >That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. >Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. > >Thanks. > >Peter > > >
I didn't know about it until a little while back. That thing comes in handy. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
