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

[NoOp]

On 03/18/2007 02:19 AM, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 

You might find these helpful:

Super Grub:
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#Super_Grub_Disk

Grub:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html
 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
  http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Interface

Possibly related bug:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/2299
[Can't switch from Gnome to TTY in Edgy (ATI x1400).]

Info:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bboot+to+tty