From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 06:51:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC2E16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:51:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE6A43D2F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:51:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004103106510911300ds8v3e> (Authid: jayobrien@att.net); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:51:09 +0000 Message-ID: <41848B5B.8090008@att.net> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:51:07 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions References: <41842DAB.7080901@att.net> <57d710000410301715351b45a5@mail.gmail.com> <418436F8.8060703@att.net> <200410301854.48655.mnavarre@cox.net> <418446BA.6070503@att.net> <41846D21.4030305@bellsouth.net> <418477CD.8090903@att.net> <20041031060947.GB21723@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20041031060947.GB21723@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:51:10 -0000 Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>Andrew Jones wrote: >> >>>Jay O'Brien wrote: >>> >>>>Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running? >>>> >>> >>>ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit. >> >>Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes >>first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I >>do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal "The display >>server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it >>is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes >>before trying again on display :0." and then it comes back on. > > > Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the > gdm process. There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have any effect. However..... In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both results in a "No such process" error on gdmlogin process and GNOME restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in "poll" state does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop out of the top display. Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho! Jay