I sort of got around it by doing a "shutdown now" which put me in a state good enough to mess with it.
I am not 100% that it really was in use. I could have been misunderstanding the error or vi could have stolen some of my crack and smoked it 8^) In any case, I thank you very much for you help. I learned of other stuff that I didn't know from your responses. Mark Danny Pansters wrote: > On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > If going back and forth between 'in X' and 'at a text console, but with X > > still running offscreen' is good enough for you, try Ctrl-Alt-Fn (for n = > > 1-6)i and Alt-F7 to get back to X. If you feel the need to go between > > 'in X' and 'X not running', then getting rid of *dm is appropriate (though > > you could also use `/etc/init.d/*dm stop`, do your console stuff, and > > `/etc/init.d/*dm start`). > > Exactly, then you can kill your xdm and your X and look into the problem at > the first place. (then apt-get remove xdm ;-) > > -- > Danny Pansters > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ricin.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer