[Feisty] Normal ways to kill xserver don't work

[Ari Torhamo]

la, 2007-03-17 kello 13:01 -0700, John L Fjellstad kirjoitti:
> Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> writes:
> 
> > Things that I have tried, but which don't work:
> >
> > killall gdm (gives "no processes killed" (transl. from Finnish))
> > killall xorg (same as above)
> > killall xserver (same as above)
> 
> If you are trying to stop X server, you need to killall X.
> You also need to stop gdm since it will probably restart automatically.
> 
> > Ctrl + Alt + Backspace (just gives a black screen - a Feisty problem?)
> > Ctrl + Alt + F1 (same as above)
> 
> After Ctrl + Alt + F1, try pushing any key (like enter)
> 
> > telinit 2 (forgot why this doesn't work)
> > telinit 3 (brings the graphical login)
> 
> In Debian (and Ubuntu),  there is no difference between runlevels 2-5.
> It's up to the administrator to decide what you want to run at each
> runlevel. 
> 
> -- 
> John L. Fjellstad
> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes


killall x 			-"no processes stopped"
Ctrl + Alt + F1, any k.		-frozen black screen
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop	-frozen black screen
killall gdm			-frozen desktop (with wallpaper)

I tried killall x and killall gdm in differen orders. I can stop x in
the recovery mode (or is x even started then?), but then the driver
installation program complainted about being on runlevel 1 and doesn't
do anything.

Soon this will stop being fun anymore...

Thanks,

Ari