> > Hi,
> > I am inside of xdm right now. I can't get out. Every time I try to
> > kill the processes, XDM locks up which forces me to hard re-boot....you
> > can imagine my dismay when I have to do that. So while I am trpped here
> > I have searched through the XDM MAN pages. I noticed under "controlling
> > the server" that I can kill the XDM process. Maybe I am misunderstanding
> > something here but if someone can come to my rescue I'd owe them my
> > freedom...thanks.
> it sounds like you are "inside of" X, i.e. you posted this message,
> correct? If what you mean is you don't want to boot up in X, the thing
> to do is go in (as root) and edit inittab to change to a run level that
> does not start xdm. which level to use depends on your version of Linux,
> but usually it will be self-evident once you get into the file.
> good luck
Or, if you want to stay in your current init level (Do you
understand those? Unix has 6 init levels basically. Typing 'init
0' as root will shut the machine down. 1 brings the machine into
single user mode (no net,gfx), 3 (in linux) is multi user, 6 is a
reboot.)
So, presuming that you're using 3 like most linux's I've seen,
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (it might differ slightly, look for rc3.d
whichi corresponds
to the init level 3 and look for something like S90xdm.
All of those files in there link back to ../init.d where the
files are actually
kept. The number basically represents the order in which these
are called, smaller numbers get called first.
Try:
mv S90xdm out.S90xdm
That way, the xdm script won't get called.
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