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

[Nils Kassube]

On Sunday 18 March 2007 09:33, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 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).

Did you try the other text logins CTRL-ALT-F2 ... CTRL-ALT-F6? I remember 
I could not use CTRL_ALT-F1 some time ago, but the others worked just 
fine.


Nils