How to get out of GNOME? (resolved)

[yuri van Overmeeren]

Jay O'Brien wrote:

>Jonathan Chen wrote:
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>>On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
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>>>Andrew Jones wrote:
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>>>>Jay O'Brien wrote:
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>>>>>Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?
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>>>>ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.
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>>>Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes 
>>>first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I 
>>>do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal "The display 
>>>server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it 
>>>is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes 
>>>before trying again on display :0." and then it comes back on. 
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>>Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
>>gdm process.
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>There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have 
>any effect. However.....
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>In top, killing XFree86 or gdmlogin restarts GNOME. killing them both 
>results in a "No such process" error on gdmlogin process and GNOME 
>restarts. However, killing the gdm binary that is in "poll" state 
>does the job; killing it causes all four of the processes to drop 
>out of the top display. 
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>Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an 
>answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho!
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>Jay 
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When you started with a login manager the ctrl-alt-backspace=restart X. 
I use kdm, If for some reason I want to exit to terminal I use a 
terminal (logged in as root) and type:

killall kdm

You could try that for gdm.

-yuri