Re: wdm problem

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote:
> After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no
> keyboard access.
> This is what the ps ax | grep wdm shows
> [08:09:10]badiane@ezulie:~$ ps ax | grep wdm
>   901 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/X11/wdm
>   905 ?        S<     0:04 /usr/bin/X11/X -auth
> /var/lib/wdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-wq6FYr

> I just hangs there.  Now when I kill -HUP 905 it reloads and I have
> keyboard access.  can someone tell me what is going on.

Don't know why X doesn't like your keyboard, but I can tell you that,
if you want to kill wdm, you need to kill wdm, not X.  wdm's purpose
is basically to ensure that there's an X session running at all
times.  If it sees that the X ssession died, it starts a new one.

Also, the preferred method for stopping wdm is:

/etc/init.d/wdm stop

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