[Fedora 15] Restart GDM from terminal?

[MikeKle]

A little be confused, as the debian way is not working (like sudo service gdm3 restart) and by the fact that I can not find solution in the internet
All I could find is such command like "stop prefdm" which is also not working.

Also tried to gdm stop gave me an error and nothing good happened.

[Neek]

Hit alt-f2 and type 'restart'?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ssive_Titlebar

Let us know if it works

[mightymouse2045]

Originally Posted by MikeKle

A little be confused, as the debian way is not working (like sudo service gdm3 restart) and by the fact that I can not find solution in the internet
All I could find is such command like "stop prefdm" which is also not working.

Also tried to gdm stop gave me an error and nothing good happened.

#init 3 (Kills X, gnome and graphical apps and leaves you with 1 working terminal)

you will need to login again

#init 5 (restarts X and gnome shell)

[MikeKle]

Originally Posted by Neek

Hit alt-f2 and type 'restart'?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ssive_Titlebar

Let us know if it works

Usually I need restart it when gnome hangs, so I have alt-f6 and need something to kill/start gnome from there.

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Originally Posted by mightymouse2045

#init 3 (Kills X, gnome and graphical apps and leaves you with 1 working terminal)

you will need to login again

#init 5 (restarts X and gnome shell)

This worked:

#Init 3
#gdm start

Thanks! However I think that this way is a little bit brutal for just restarting gdm

[mightymouse2045]

If gnome has hung then forcing gdm to stop is as brutal as init 3 and init 5

In my opinion it is cleaner as well.

I have noticed say if I am opening an SVG file (5mb or so) in gimp (gimp can import SVG only), it would sit there at 100% utilisation for file-svg process and never import it. While that was happening I had reloaded the shell with alt + f2 r and one of my extensions crapped itself and it presented me with a logout option.

Once I had logged back in the file-svg was still running at 100% as was a nautilus process. I thought hmmm a logout should have killed both those processes (as they were running under my normal user account), I logged out again and back in, and the file-svg was still running and now I had 2 nautilus processes running at 100%

Long story short - if you want to be sure you are killing any rogue processes or make sure a gdm restart has unloaded and cleared all modules 100% an init 3 / init 5 is the way to do it.

But that's from one noob to another

[Neek]

Originally Posted by MikeKle

This worked:

#Init 3
#gdm start

Did it? With a capital I?

Anyway, it's best to follow "init 3" with an "init 5" rather than just "gdm start" in order to start any other services that were stopped when you dropped to runlevel 3. It's a good habit to be in, even if you don't seem to notice any difference yourself. It's also arguably easier to type and remember.

If you don't know about runlevels, you might google up a tutorial.

If "init 5" does not get you back into X, then that's a problem worth reporting here

Thanks for the input mightymouse2045, I'd forgotten about runlevels in the context of this discussion.

[mightymouse2045]

Originally Posted by deeanabrown32

So that is a bit about me!

That's exciting - keep us updated, hope everything goes smoothly!

What the?!?