From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 07:37:23 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 46CEA16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:37:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD4D43D2D for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl) Received: from reston.demon.nl ([212.238.216.87]:1036 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1COAHB-000NiS-OK; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:37:21 +0000 Message-ID: <41849636.3040007@reston.demon.nl> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:37:26 +0100 From: yuri van Overmeeren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay O'Brien 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> <41848B5B.8090008@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41848B5B.8090008@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get out of GNOME? (resolved) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:37:23 -0000 Jay O'Brien wrote: >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 > When you started with a login manager the ctrl-alt-backspace=restart X. I use kdm, If for some reason I want to exit to terminal I use a terminal (logged in as root) and type: killall kdm You could try that for gdm. -yuri