gdm login screen fails to load

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 03:13 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:24 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:01 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > You probably will have to restart after running the configuration widget
> > > > though - I was never able to figure out how to gently restart kdm and I
> > > > presume gdm is similar without restarting the computer.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
> > > 
> > > Couldn't you just "init 3" in a root terminal and login command line
> > > mode, then enter "init 5" to restart gracefully? 
> > ----
> > sure - and if you wanted to do it faster, init 1 and then init 5 but
> > your suggestion doesn't alter the fact that it doesn't gently restart
> > kdm.
> > 
> > nice of you to toss in a relatively worthless point 2 days after the
> > fact tho'
> 
> It doesn't? I thought it did. I wouldn't have bothered to post if I didn't. 
> Ah, just checked, it's gpm listed in services. My bad. I'll hazard a
> half-baked guess to init 3 and from there enter gdm-restart or
> gdm-safe-restart, according to what the man page sez. Luckily, I haven't
> borked that up yet to try. Not sure I'd attempt it while still in level
> 5 though. Ric
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I kept trying to sigkill kdm gently but it didn't work until I did it
with prejudice (signal 9) at which point, all of the ltsp users were
kicked off...it wasn't pretty.

Craig