on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:02:39PM +0100, Thomas Adam insinuated: > --- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > zombie and start up X on console 7, or, failing that, tell X to > > ignore the zombie and start up on console 6 or 8 or something like > > that for the time being? > > Zombie processes indicate the parent threw a wobblie and left the > children out in the cold. You'll just have to wait until the kernel > flushes it, or the parent becomes active. But on the case of xdm the > parent is init, so you're probably better of either rebooting, or at > a push: > > telinit 1 > telinit 2
reading the manpage, that seems to say that it would first take the
system in to single-user mode, and then ... what's runlevel 2 do?
would doing that kill all processes, like my smbfs mounts that i was
trying to save?
(not a big deal right now, since the problem was solved by restarting
xdm, but i'm curious.)
thanks,
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