[Linux-disciples] Restarting gdm

[Adam Kessel]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:08:48PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I just did an apt-get upgrade, and it turns out that GDM was
> upgraded. So I logged out of my Gnome session, went over to
> a virtual terminal and did a 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart'.
> The output was:
> Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdm not running.
> Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm already running.
> Um ... anyone have any thoughts on this?

This is usually just a temporary glitch, perhaps the script is not
waiting long enough to restart.

Did you try just killing all your gdm processes and then /etc/init.d/gdm
start?
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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