Hello Mick, > > I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot. > > /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console.
zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by letting the system start another instance. killall -9 xdm is probably needed here, possibly followed by a zap. -- Neil Bothwick Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
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