[Cialug] Stopping X in ubuntu for a few minutes

[Nathan C. Smith]

Didn't seem to work when I tried it as root, working with sudo.  Maybe I was
typing restart?

Thanks for the pointers - it is stopping it now. 

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Nuzum [mailto:matthew.nuzum at canonical.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:27 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Stopping X in ubuntu for a few minutes
> 
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:52 -0600, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > What is the best way to stop X for a few minutes to install 
> the Nvidia 
> > drivers?  If I kill gdm etc it starts back up.  If I use 
> > /etc/init.d/gdm stop it also restarts.  Am I missing a process I 
> > should kill or is there a general command to stop X?  If I go to 
> > runlevel one the drivers advise against installing.
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
> 
> when you're ready to restart it,
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
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