can't kill X from the terminal

dr_zayus69 · 12-03-2005, 12:05 PM

hi. im trying to install the nVidia driver for my card and to do so i need to be at the console with X not running. So i did ctrl+alt+f1, logged in as root, did ps -e | grep X, found the pid and tried kill pid#. The prompt goes away for a quick section and then im brought to the graphical login which i assume is under the default graphical key (ctrl+alt+f7 - correct?) cuz i have to do ctrl+alt+f1 to get back to the console. I've also tried killall -HUP X. Didn't know if there was any difference using killall but i get the same results. Is there a way to safely force it to shutdown?

XavierP · 12-03-2005, 12:10 PM

Try telinit followed by the number shown in inittab for non-gui mode. For example, on my system it would be: telinit 3

dr_zayus69 · 12-03-2005, 12:13 PM

oh yeah. i had completely forgot about that. thanks. i'll give that a try.

dr_zayus69 · 12-03-2005, 07:02 PM

i tried changing to runlevel three but i start getting messages that say processes are starting and then it says wine is starting and seems to halt. So i tried changing wine in /etc/rc3.d from S98wine to K98wine. Then when i tried i get it saying it is sending the TERM signal to all the processes and then it seems to hang. Also when first changing to runlevel three now the screen will be black and i have to hit a key for any output to be visible. Does anyone know what's going on? thanks for any help in advance.

king_scott_2 · 12-03-2005, 09:02 PM

Have you tried rcxdm stop (for Suse)

also, I think others might do something like service xdm stop or something

dr_zayus69 · 12-04-2005, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by king_scott_2

Have you tried rcxdm stop (for Suse)

also, I think others might do something like service xdm stop or something

im on Fedora and didn't find rcxdm on my system. i have xdm on my system but /sbin/service xdm stop gets me an unrecognized service error. I read a little of the xdm man page but that did not really help me understand what it is meant for except that xdm stands for x display manager and it seems you can use that when the x server is on another box. i dunno.

dr_zayus69 · 12-04-2005, 05:20 AM

ok i fixed it but i had to do it in a runabout way. I changed teh default runlevel to 3, rebooted, reinstalled the driver, startx only showed the nvidia logo screen then jumped back to the commandline so i had to change the default runlevel back to 5 and reboot.

NYCmitch25 · 06-12-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dr_zayus69

ok i fixed it but i had to do it in a runabout way. I changed teh default runlevel to 3, rebooted, reinstalled the driver, startx only showed the nvidia logo screen then jumped back to the commandline so i had to change the default runlevel back to 5 and reboot.

Ignoring everything everyone did here this is wut I do :

su -
init 3 (kills the desktop)

Then to kill processes :
look at /tmp/.X1-lock /tmp/.X2-lock etc. kill the PIDS in those files

If that doesn't work change defuault runlevel to 3 and reboot