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

[Ari Torhamo]

la, 2007-03-17 kello 19:23 -0400, Matthew Flaschen kirjoitti:
> Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Nvidia proprietary driver in Feisty (nv doesn't work with my GeForce 8800 card), but I can't get the installer work because I can't stop xserver from running.
> > 
> > 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)
> > Ctrl + Alt + Backspace (just gives a black screen - a Feisty problem?)
> > Ctrl + Alt + F1 (same as above)
> > telinit 2 (forgot why this doesn't work)
> > telinit 3 (brings the graphical login)
> > 
> > I tried the commands from the desktop and recovery mode. Killall and Ctrl + Alt + Backspace used to work in Feisty to my remembering - don't know what's wrong with them now. Something to do with the vesa driver perhaps?
> > 
> > I'd be greatfull for help in this because I can only have 60Hz refresh rate on my monitor at the moment (that's all I can get with the vesa driver).
> 
> Are you using grub?  If so, restart, go to the grub menu screen (you may
> have to push ESC), press e (I think) to edit the command line, and add
> the word single at the end (remove "quiet" and "splash" if they're
> there).  That should boot without X.


Hmmm... this produced a seeminly normal boot to the graphical desktop.
The line "quiet" was there, but "splash" wasn't.

I also tried "sudo killall Xorg, as Andy suggested, but that again made
the screen go black and freeze. It's strange that my monitor also goes
into stand-by mode when this freezing happeneds.

There must be something currently wrong with Feisty in this regard. In
my previous installation (not counting those nine which I have done
during the last few days) I was able kill x from the command line. I
don't remember how I did it, but it must have been one of the ways I
have tried now. Perhaps I should report this as a bug. If I do, I'd
first like to hear if there's anyone with a fresh Feisty installation
who can access the command line normally and kill the xserver there.


Thanks Andy and Matthew

Ari