[Linux-disciples] Restarting gdm

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:12:59PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote:
> 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?

Interesting: when gdm was running before, the process was
'gdm-binary' or 'gdmlogin'. Just now I manually killed all
the gdm* processes, then restarted gdm; now the process is
called just 'gdm'. I wonder what was going on before.

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