On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:07:11PM -0500, Anant wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having some problems with XDM. For some reason, I can only run
> it once. If I exit from it through Ctrl+Alt+F1, and then type xdm at
> the prompt, nothing happens. It is as though I had just pressed enter.
> When I type startx, it says that the server is already running because
> of the lock file. Is there supposed to be a more appropriate way for
> exiting xdm? Thanks
>
> Anant
It, xdm, is still running. In order to exit xdm if it is running in
daemon mode is to find its pid
ps -aux | grep 'xdm'
As root, do a
kill xdm's pid
If you want a way to run X and then exit out of it, try using only
startx and not having xdm startup at system startup.
Ian
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