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

[Ari Torhamo]

la, 2007-03-17 kello 22:10 -0700, John L Fjellstad kirjoitti:

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

Yep, tried this one too.

> > 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)?

That's a part of the problem - I can't get to the command line, other
than inside Terminal in Gnome or by booting in recovery mode (which
leads to runlevel 1, which prevents installation of Nvidia graphics
driver).

> > 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)

Aren't the files needed for anything. May I get some trouble later
because of those files missing? It just sounds a little... crude to
delete some system files just like that. Well, I'll propably re-install
at some not so distant point anyway, so I'll give this a shot.

Ari