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

[NoOp]

On 03/18/2007 01:33 AM, 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)
>> 

Ctrl + Alt + F1 works for me - Feisty Herd5 (2.6.20.11-generic) fully
updated as of yesterday.

Shows:
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mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found.

Ubuntu feisty (development branch) machinename tty1

machinename login: machinename
Password:
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I wonder if mdadm is causing your system to freeze... see:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bugs