Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

On 2015-04-08, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:

On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:

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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.