[kde-linux] K Menu->Log Out->Restart through command-line?

[daniel åkerud]

Lol, my linux crashes once a week... its the DVB-T drivers... nothing i can
do about it. The drivers crash every day... reloading only works for about a
week...

/D

On Dec 30, 2007 3:15 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at ij.net> wrote:

> On 2007/12/30 12:38 (GMT+0100) daniel åkerud apparently typed:
>
> > On Dec 30, 2007 7:14 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at ij.net> wrote:
>
> >> On 2007/12/30 00:30 (GMT-0500) James Loughner apparently typed:
>
> >> > daniel åkerud wrote:
>
> >> >> How can I do a KDE "restart" (Found through K Menu->Log
> Out->Restart)
> >> >> from the command-line?
>
> Why?
>
> > I figured a regular "reboot" is bad, since
> >> >> sessions et al is not saved, and programs are probably more abruptly
> >> >> closed.
>
> >> > To stop or start a GUI session:
> >> > Go to a terminal normally ctrl-alt-F1 will do
> >> > log on as root
> >> > type init 3
> >> > this normally will shutdown the GUI
> >> > type init 5
> >> > this will restart the GUI
> >> > go back to the terminal ctrl-alt-F1
> >> > Log out as root
> >> > type exit
>
> >> > I said normally above since I don't know what distro and though most
> >> > will follow the init level rules there is no  absolute....
>
> >> Init 3/init 5 doesn't work on most Debians, which don't do anything
> different
> >> in runlevels 2-5. '/etc/rc.d/kdm restart' as root or with sudo should
> get the
> >> job done though on both Debians and non-Debians.
>
> > I actually want to reboot the computer,
>
> Why? O_O
>
> There's only two times that make any sense to "reboot" any Linux:
>
> 1-machine off
> 2-engage a different kernel
>
> Everything else that needs a shutdown or restart or repair or whatever can
> be
> successfully accomplished without a reboot, and a whole lot more quickly.
>
> > like "Restart" does in KDE, and the
> > suggestions above doesn't do that. In other words, I want to do the KDE
> > equivalent to /sbin/reboot (but still save session and whatever KDE
> > does).
>
> Try init 6 to restart, init 0 to shut off.
>
> > Btw, I'm using Kubuntu 7.10.
>
> That's a Debian.
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>
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>
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