Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. I was wondering because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:19, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 4/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap. That avoids the need for a reboot. If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login screen. Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Mick, I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot. /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console. zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it stopped. It's used for handling processes that have died as zombies, by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Mick, I tried that. XDM refused to die. That's why I did the reboot. /etc/init.d/xdm zap *should* work - assuming you can get to the console. zap doesn't stop anything, it just tells the system to consider it stopped. It's used for handling

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had it configured for KDM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had