Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > >
And if you are paranoid, like me, you can do a "ps aux | grep xdm" to make sure it is dead. I have to mention that I had a problem with KDE a couple times. I would close it, stop xdm using the script, do a kill and it was still running several minutes later. I had to reboot that time because I wasn't sure what to do next. When kill -9 < process # >doesn't work, something is . . . . fishy. I hate that he had to reboot though. Sounds to much like winders. O_O Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
