Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an idea? dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get unloaded and there's a please reboot kernel message sitting somewhere on one of your terminals (it happens :) If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap` to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again. That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. Thanks. Peter -- If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
Peter Kelly wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an idea? dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get unloaded and there's a please reboot kernel message sitting somewhere on one of your terminals (it happens :) If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap` to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again. That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. Thanks. Peter I didn't know about it until a little while back. That thing comes in handy. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
Saturday 27 May 2006 16:16 skrev Peter Kelly: That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. You people really should read the Gentoo handbook. Not just the installation related part but also part 2-4. It's really good. E.g. the 'zap' command is documented in part 2, chapter 4 [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 BTW common netiquette says a signature should be no more than 4 lines. -- Bo Andresen pgpdQFC8J1469.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Saturday 27 May 2006 16:16 skrev Peter Kelly: That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. You people really should read the Gentoo handbook. Not just the installation related part but also part 2-4. It's really good. E.g. the 'zap' command is documented in part 2, chapter 4 [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 BTW common netiquette says a signature should be no more than 4 lines. May be. I installed Gentoo a couple years ago. I sort of learn as I go. If I read that thing it would likely confuse me. I'm in the same boat with Samba right now. The docs and howto's just confuse the stuffin out of me. I'm having trouble on the windoze end though, I think. I'll blame windoze anyway. LOL Now to go confuse myself. O_O Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
