On 2015-04-08, Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the >> other day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a >> CentOS 6.6 machine. >> >> The purpose of the runlevel switch was to restart gdm. Is there a >> better way? > > Since CentOS 6 uses Upstart as its init system, and GDM is run from an > Upstart service (and not a SysV init script), you can use the upstart > tools to restart GDM. It's actually run from the 'prefdm' service > (because it could also run kdm or xdm). > > # initctl restart prefdm prefdm start/running, process 29141 >
That did the trick. Thank you. -- Liam _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
