How to get out of GNOME?

Post by Jay O'Brien
Running 4.10.
I added the GNOME package, updated the files it said to edit
when it was installing, and now I can't get out of GNOME,
even with editing (via ftp) the files back as they were in
the first place and rebooting.
How can I get back to a command line terminal?

ctl+alt+F1 should bring you to a virtual terminal. i bet gnome is
launching GDM or XDM on boot, if you take that out of your startup
scrips you should be all set.

-p

Post by Jay O'Brien
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Jay O'Brien

2004-10-31 00:51:04 UTC

Post by pete wright

ctl+alt+F1 should bring you to a virtual terminal. i bet gnome is
launching GDM or XDM on boot, if you take that out of your startup
scrips you should be all set.

Pete, Thank you. Now I can get control again. And yes, it had me copy
/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh.sample as gdm.sh. I deleted the gdm.sh and now
it doesn't boot into GNOME.

WHERE should I have found the magic ctl+alt+F1? Nowhere in the GNOME
help, is it to be found, Google "exit gnome" and the like didn't find it....

Jay

Matt Navarre

2004-10-31 01:54:48 UTC

Post by Jay O'Brien
WHERE should I have found the magic ctl+alt+F1? Nowhere in the GNOME
help, is it to be found, Google "exit gnome" and the like didn't find it....

ctl+alt+F1 doesn't really quit Gnome. It switches to a virtual terminal that
has getty instead of GDM running on it.

For more on virtual terminals:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/consoles.html

For more on xdm/gdm/kdm:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

That doesn't really cover gdm, but the basics are the same.

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Jay O'Brien

2004-10-31 01:58:18 UTC

Post by Matt Navarre

Post by Jay O'Brien
WHERE should I have found the magic ctl+alt+F1? Nowhere in the GNOME
help, is it to be found, Google "exit gnome" and the like didn't find it....

ctl+alt+F1 doesn't really quit Gnome. It switches to a virtual terminal that
has getty instead of GDM running on it.

So I see.... hmmmm

Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

Jay

Subhro

2004-10-31 04:28:34 UTC

Post by Jay O'Brien
So I see.... hmmmm
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

I guess that would be a very good idea as Gnome DOES consume a
handsome amount of memory.

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S.

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Andrew Jones

2004-10-31 04:42:09 UTC

Post by Jay O'Brien
So I see.... hmmmm
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?
Jay
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ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.

Jay O'Brien

2004-10-31 05:27:41 UTC

Post by Jay O'Brien
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.

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.

If I use ctl+alt+F1 to go from GNOME to a virtual terminal, then try
ctl+alt+backspace, it does nothing (except beep). Top reports that
the processes that come up when I start gdm are XFree86, gdmlogin,
and two gdm-binary processes. KILL seems to have no effect on them.

There's got to be a way to shut GNOME and XFree86 down without
rebooting! At least that works. I wonder if this may be the time
to go to version 5 and the newer version of X?

Jay O'Brien

Specs: FreeBSD V4.10, GNOME package obtained today via the Internet
using pkg_add -r gnome2.

Jonathan Chen

2004-10-31 06:09:47 UTC

Post by Jay O'Brien
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.

Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
gdm process.

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Jay O'Brien

2004-10-31 06:51:07 UTC

Post by Jonathan Chen

Post by Jay O'Brien
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.

Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
gdm process.

There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have
any effect. However.....

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.

Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an
answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho!

Jay

yuri van Overmeeren

2004-10-31 07:37:26 UTC

Post by Jonathan Chen

Post by Jay O'Brien
Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?

ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.

Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
gdm process.

There is no gdm entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 doesn't seem to have
any effect. However.....
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.
Interesting. Thanks everyone, your suggestions helped me find an
answer that works. I don't think it should be this difficult, tho!
Jay

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

Jay O'Brien

2004-11-08 06:36:32 UTC