Re: Eek! X won't go away!
In lists.projects.debian.user, you wrote:
>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...
>
>This one has foxed me completely!!
>
>Any ideas?
The program that's doing this is gdm, the graphical display manager.
There are several ways around it:
1. To temporarily get non-graphical console access, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or
f2 through f6). Ctrl+Alt+F7 should get you back to the gdm login
2. To kill gdm temporarily, do "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as root. The same
command with "start" instead of "stop" will start it up again later.
3. Remove gdm completely by doing something like "apt-get remove gdm" as
root.
K.
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