X Server will not die! (Ubuntu Hardy)
 

Hi Guys,

I tried running /etc/init.d/gdm stop. Some times it says

gdm[6826]: WARNING: GDM already running. Aborting!
GDM already running. Aborting!

Sometimes it brings up a blue screen, and claims a terminal is busy, and actually adds an Xserver.

root@ten:/etc/init.d# ps -ea | grep "X"
5702 tty8 00:00:01 Xorg
6333 tty9 00:00:10 Xorg
7026 tty10 00:00:00 Xorg

I tried Crtl+Alt+Backspace, which stopped the Xserver, but then the Xserver restarts. After trying this about six times the a message pops up saying, "The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely something bad is going on. Waiting two minutes before trying again on display :0." or something like that.

I tried kill -9 #### and it restarted also.

By the way, I can not restart in rescue mode, my solution must be at term level 3. Thanks for you help.

God Bless You,
Grae Cullen

Simplest solution is probably to hack up your own inittab - for Hardy that probably means creating one.
(Edit:) In my case I just picked an unused runlevel.