On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Icarus wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can get out of xdm. Halt and Shutdown don't work...
> the last thing the xconsole shows is "Shutting down gpm mouse services..." and
> then it freezes. If I do a reboot, then I reboot without unmounting the
> filesystem. What do I do?
The best way to get out of xdm depends on how it was started.
If you typed 'xdm' at a root shell, you can just 'killall xdm'
If, however, you use the /etc/inittab method, init will just re-spawn xdm
for you -- you need to tell it not to.
Edit /etc/inittab and comment out the line on which xdm is referenced,
then kill -HUP your init process (usually 1).
This will tell init to reread the file, and it should shut down xdm for
you.
Note: xdm doesn't cause machines to not be able to shut down. I think
you may have another problem there.
Check in /etc/rc.d/rc2.d for what gets run right after K??gpm (ls -1 K*).
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