Unable to Kill X

flebber · 07-23-2005, 11:45 PM

Hi

for the life of me I am unable to kill x so I can install the nvidia driver.

I have tried

CTRL+ALT+F2 - takes me to the vector login prompt but it appears X is still running.
/etc/init.d/xdm stop - no such file or directory.

after login in at the vector prompt I tried

killx and kill -x, kill +x, kill -sigwinch

how do I kill x in vector?

johnson_steve · 07-24-2005, 12:08 AM

first try

init 3

this should bring you to runlevel 3 which shouldn't have x running but depending on your system x may still be running in runlevel3 so if that doesn't work try these

if you use startx try:
killall X

or kill your display manager
killall xdm

or for kde
killall kdm

or gnome
killall gdm

flebber · 07-24-2005, 12:55 AM

Thanks

init 3 worked perfectly, I did try the others as a matter of curiosity but they returned no processes killed. NVIDIA installed like a charm.