Re: Keeping X from restarting after killing it

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

S.Squarepants wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:24:58 +0200
> Markus Lindström <mlindstr@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I think this thread is pretty self-explanatory. Actually, I want to 
> > install the binary nVidia drivers, and they require me to shut down
> > the X server. Unfortunately, when using the ctrl-alt-backspace
> > interrupt, X instantly respawns.
>
>
> Open a terminal, su to root, then type
>    init 1
> do your business of installing and the like. When finished type
>    init 5
> to get back to graphical login, or
>    init 3
> to get to console-based login.

  you can also kill xdm (or whatever you're using to manage X), using 
/etc/init.d/xdm stop (and later on start it using /etc/init.d/xdm 
start), replace xdm by the program you are actually using

	erik