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slvadcjelli42:
Quick question (I've got a million of 'em, but this will do for now) I think this is so simple and stupid nothing covers it; how do I shut down the X Window System in Linux (I have Redhat 8) but not the whole system (edit: whole OS, I mean)? I need to do this to install a newer version (another edit: newer version of X, not RH).

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: Dirk Gently ]

Laukev7:
init 3

slvadcjelli42:
ok, thanks  

slvadcjelli42:
Uh oh, now I've got some trouble... X works fine. there's no problem there. But now the graphical login thingy is.. um... broken. :(  It tries to run, starts a grey screen with a box of scrolling text in the lower right quarter for a few seconds and then goes back to the text login thing. I got here by using the init 3 setting and then using startx. Is there any way i can repair / reinstall the graphical login tool?

(A little more information: I'm using RHL8 with xfree86 version 4.3.0.  kernel: 2.4.18-14 libc 6.2.93 (I don't know what that is, but can't hurt to mention it))

sime:
Off the top of me head run

xdm &

at a prompt

later

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