> I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to > shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to > report runlevel 5.
The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then doing telinit
3 is largely pointless. What runlevel was the system that you ssh'ed from
running at? Was that a gentoo system?
>
> I then ran 'halt' as root to attempt a reboot, and this
> also had no effect. The system carried on as though nothing had happened,
> except with no console.
Did you try to Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X server?
> Repeated attempts to halt or 'kill -9' the X server had no effect, so
> I pressed the button, which had the desired effect.
The proper way to shutdown from the console is to run
"/sbin/shutdown -r now"
Obviously you need to be working as root. or press Ctrl-Alt-Del
did you try
"/etc/init.d/xdm stop"
This should stop the X session if you started it using the standard bootup
proccess.
> Regards,
> DigbyT
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