On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:22:26 -0500 Dale wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:21:43 -0700 > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul > >> Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogor...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be > >>>> able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. > >>>> > >>>> What is the gentoo way to do that? > >>>> > >>> It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a > >>> "startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to > >>> get out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll > >>> restart itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and > >>> then sudo /etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). > >>> You can then rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you > >>> want to do. sudo /etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Several of you suggested "/etc/init.d/xdm start" or so to get it > >> (re)started. It doesn't work. Instead the start-stop daemon > >> complains of not being able to stat "/usr/bin/xdm" which doesn't > >> exist. And no I didn't mispell it. I've never seen this before an > >> I'm baffled. > >> > >> ++ kevin > >> > > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > This weekend I needed to stop and start X a lot because I was > > experimenting with running dosemu from a tty command line and the > > DOS application I'm running under dosemu hangs the command line. > > > > Using an ssh session (from another machine) I found that > > "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" works to stop X. However, > > restarting is a bit tricky since "/etc/init.d/xdm start" fails > > because of files in "/var/lib/init.d/*/xdm". If one runs "rm > > -rf /var/lib/init.d/*/xdm" then runs "/etc/init.d/xdm start" one is > > good to go. > > > > HTH, > > > > David > > > > > > > > Then /etc/init.d/xdm zap may be easier and cleaner. > > Dale
I hadn't known of zap. Indeed it's an easier way to do the cleanup. However, use it _after_ stop. I tried it instead of stop. What it does is remove the /var/init.d/*/xdm files. With them gone, "/etc/init.d/xdm status" can't tell that xdm has been started and "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" doesn't do anything. I had to frog around to fix the problem. Be careful !! David
