On 2011/08/10 18:04, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have attempted to get a misbehaving X windows system to restart without
> rebooting the machine. In the past, as I recall, ctrl-alt-backspace would do
> this. This evidently has been disabled with the current X windows releases
> on Linux, including SL 6 . What is the current equivalent (perhaps a shell
> command), or how does one reactivate a control sequence to force the X
> server to exit and restart/reinitialize, with a fresh login screen?
>
> I have found some references using a web search to this issue for a number
> of current Linux distributions, but none of the offered "cures" seem to work
> with SL 6 (or presumably any RHEL 6 variant).
>
> Yasha Karant

Push comes to shove go to a console, (alt-f2) and use "telinit 3" followed
by "telinit 5". I am SURE somebody else has a better solution. This is
sort of like taking a 500 ton punch press to kill a fly.

{^_-}