Re: Eek! X won't go away!

["Pollywog" <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:59:54 +0000 (GMT), Gavin Hamill said:

> I have a MOST bizarre and interesting problem at the moment!
>  
>  After my 'unstable' machine boots.. about 2 minutes later, X will start
>  up, with an xconsole in the corner showing 'dmesg' output, and a simple
>  graphical login prompt in the centre of the screen forces a login before
>  anything else can be done...
>  
>  If I try and kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, it immediately reloads...
>  

I believe I had a similar experience once, so I uninstalled xdm (or
gdm, kdm, if you use Gnome or KDE)

--
Andrew