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

[John L Fjellstad]

Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> writes:

>> 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)
>
> killall x 			-"no processes stopped"

The command was killall X (note the big letter X, not small x)

> Ctrl + Alt + F1, any k.		-frozen black screen
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop	-frozen black screen
> killall gdm			-frozen desktop (with wallpaper)

Where do you do this from?  Command line or inside Gnome (as in, inside
Terminal in Gnome)?

> 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.

One option, delete /etc/rc3.d/S??gdm like this
sudo rm /etc/rc3.d/S*gdm

Now you can login in runlevel 3 without X like this
sudo telinit 3

(default for Debian and Ubuntu is 2)

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