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 -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>