Re: Boot probblem with xdm
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> You can also use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to shut down X
Not with xdm, it just restarts.
> When you are back at a text console:
> "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" will stop xdm
As root only. Personally, i've had trouble with this, it always claims xdm
isn't running. kill `cat /var/run/xdm-pid` works though.
> "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm" will remove the link that causes xdm to start up
> (assumes your default runlevel is still "2")
There's a better way in Debian.
# update-rc.d -f xdm remove
That will handle all the rc?.d directories. If you later want to put it
back in, the proper command would be:
# update-rc.d xdm defaults 99 01
The 99 is the startup sequence code (makes it start last), 01 is the kill
sequence code (makes it be (one of) the first killed).
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