gdm login screen fails to load

[Ric Moore]

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? 

Back in the day, we'd do backflips to avoid "re-booting" just to see how
many days/months/years a machine could stay up continuously. <grins>
Grey Whiskered Ric

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