On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:33:01 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27/05/2015, Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:15:36 +0800 > > Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or, is a way available, without causing damage, that I can do > >> something like go to a console (<CTRL><ALT<F1>) and turn off, from > >> there, the xserver, so as to enable the installation? > > > > It depends on what display manager you are using, if it is for > > example lightdm then simply kill that, and X will shut down. > > > > Try "sudo pkill lightdm". > > > > Petter > > > > It is gnome. Well, then I would expect something like "sudo pkill gdm" might work. AFAICR Debian 6 uses Gnome 2, so maybe "gdm2", I'm not sure. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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