Re: init 3 does nothing
hugge@bigfoot.com wrote:
>I'm running debian 2.0, and thinking about upgrading to 2.1.
Hmm, you should probably go for 2.2 now, if you can ...
>I want to shut down X, so that I can do some upgrading of X-related
>stuff, without sawing off the branch I'm standing on, so to speak.
>
>I was advised to try 'init 3', but this does nothing.
You've been talking to Red Hat users :) Debian has a different runlevel
architecture, so there's no non-X runlevel.
Try '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' to shut down the X Display Manager. I wasn't
around at the time of Debian 2.0, so if /etc/init.d/xdm didn't exist
then look through /etc/init.d and see if there's anything similar.
Alternatively, you could always just Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in there; even
if X dies it won't matter, as you won't be depending on it.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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