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Old 12-19-2004, 03:23 AM   #1
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from gui to shell


I'm using RH9 .My default boot level is 3 (shell), I can go to gui by typing "GDM" at shell but I want to know how to kill the gui and go back to shell without rebooting the system.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:27 AM   #2
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Open a terminal and make it runlevel 3 again

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telinit 3
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:29 AM   #3
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command not found is the error when i do that.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:31 AM   #4
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init 3

Does that work?
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:33 AM   #5
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nope, command not found.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:35 AM   #6
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Were you root?
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:36 AM   #7
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tried it both ways, root and normal.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:39 AM   #8
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Hmm strange. You can kill gdm but that's not the proper way. With "ps -aux" you can find the process number then you can do "kill (number)". CTRL-ALT-BSP will also kill the xserver but IIRC gdm kept on restarting making it not useful. Other than that I'm out of suggestions.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 03:45 AM   #9
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ctrl-alt-bsp simply logs out and takes back to the gui login screen, killing it is something i could do but I can't find gdm, or the right one in the list.

Thanks for the suggestions though, maybe someone else will have more ideas.

EDIT: Killing the gdm-binary worked, I can use this for now unless someone else gives other suggestions.

Last edited by deWin; 12-19-2004 at 03:52 AM.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 06:16 AM   #10
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Init 3 wouldn't have worked anyway because you're launching X without switching runlevel. If you have runlevel 5 (or 4 ?) set up for X in /etc/inittab you should use 'init 5' for GUI and 'init 3' to get back to CLI. init is usually in /sbin, did you use 'su -' to become root ? Just 'su' won't change your path.
 
Old 12-19-2004, 06:42 AM   #11
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Maybe this is a silly question

Maybe this is a silly question, but do you really need to kill the GUI?

Would CTRL-ALT-F1 (or F2, F3, whatever) give you what you want?

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