On 2015-05-27, Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote: > > Closing services cleanly would be better advice. > > "systemctl stop gdm.service" for systemd. > > "service gdm stop" for SysV. > I believe for the OP to cleanly stop his display manager (if we're talking Squeeze LTS here as well as Gnome gdm) service gdm3 stop