<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM, jansenj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jansenj%2Bmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">jansenj+myth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I know this isn't a ubuntu forum, but I am using the mythbuntu distro<br>
like I'm sure many others in this list are as well, and I wasn't able<br>
to find an answer on google.<br>
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I know in other distos in the past (Fedora 7 for example) I was able<br>
to use "init 3" from runlevel 5 remotely when having problems with<br>
graphical stuff either X sessions or vnc sessions. I would then use<br>
"init 5" to start back up all the graphical services. I understand<br>
ubuntu no longer uses this facility, rather it uses Upstart. Is there<br>
a command in Upstart that would achieve something similar to dropping<br>
to runlevel using an "init 3"? Basically, I'd rather not have to do<br>
the windows thing and restart the computer every time there is a<br>
problem or every time I want something to take effect. I know I can<br>
re-initiate an event, but all that appears to be doing is attempting<br>
to start everything associated with that event again, I want to be<br>
able to restart all services that were started after a given event.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS at home and I'm certain it's using init. 'ps aux' shows an init process running, /etc/init.d exists, and telinit is installed on the system. At the very least, this would indicate that init is available for your mythubuntu system and it may be just a matter of selecting the right packages.<br>
<br>Is there a /etc/init.d directory or something similar? You could just run the gdm script to get similar functionality. 'gdm stop' would kill your X sessions and stop the graphical interface. Use 'startx' for testing and then issue a 'gdm start' when you're done to bring the login manager back.<br>
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