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

[Ari Torhamo]

su, 2007-03-18 kello 04:22 -0400, Matthew Flaschen kirjoitti:
> Ari Torhamo wrote:
> >>> 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.
> 
> Then you didn't do what I said. :)  Try again, and be sure to remove
> *both* "quiet" and "splash", and add "single" (no quotes for any).
> Reply back with the grub command you run, and the result.
> 
> P.S.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-F1 should work, but I've had them
> fail on Ubuntu Edgy.


You didn't read what I said ;-) Quoting my previous message: "The line
"quiet" was there, but "splash" wasn't." I couldn't remove "splash"
because I don't have it.

I removed "quiet" and added "single" to the end. Then I tried two ways
of booting: by pressing "b" in Grub's edit mode, and by pressing "e" to
get back to the boot menu and booting normally from there. They both
lead me to the graphical login. I noticed though that the changes I made
weren't saved - is this normal?

Isn't there any way in Ubuntu to boot straight to the command line other
than to choose the recovery mode from the boot menu? I would be one step
closer to the solution, if I wouldn't have to worry about killing the
gdm first.

The problems you had with Edgy make me think even more that I'm
suffering from a bug here.

Thanks

Ari