Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>Andrew Jones wrote: >> >>>Jay O'Brien wrote: >>> >>>>Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? >>>> >>> >>>ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. >> >>Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes >>first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I >>do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal "The display >>server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it >>is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes >>before trying again on display :0." and then it comes back on. > > > Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the > gdm process.
There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have any effect. However..... In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both results in a "No such process" error on gdmlogin process and GNOME restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in "poll" state does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop out of the top display. Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho! Jay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"