how to shutdown x server?
 

I am trying to upgrade/install Nvidia drivers. Instructions say that I need to shutdown x server to do so. How in the world do I do that? I can't seem to find any help for that on the net anywhere.

Just go into single user mode. An init 1 should get you there.

You probably know more than i do but the way i got this done was to have X not start automatically, just do that install the drivers and start x from console.

hi

first off open up a terminal

type in:

ps -A

look in the list for something callled X

look to the right of it in the very first column and you will see a number

such as 1613 or whatever...

now type in:

kill NUMBER

where number is the number that was next to X

If X is already running you can kill X by hitting "Ctrl + Alt + Backspace"

If you don't want X to start automatically when you boot you can edit "/etc/inittab" find where is says "id:5:initdefault:" and change it to "id:3:initdefault:"

~PolyPerception

Poly said what i was about to.

That works also. What I like about my method is you don't have to reboot at any stage. Nor do you perform a nasty kill.

It's not good to kill X or do a ctrl_alt_bksp

going to a runlevel lower than 5 is really the way to go,

init 3

will work.

I have the same problem.

Doesn't work for me. :(
init 1 gives me just a blank screen with a linux logo, and I cannot find inittab.

You do know that they cover this in their documentation http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...ppendix-h.html

What OS did you install? Because the fastest way to do this is to kill the window manager, but each OS has its own.

Yes, but that just suggests to edit inittab. As I said: I don't seem to have it.
I'm running Mint 17.

You have resurrected a 10+ year old thread. It would surely be better to start a fresh thread and clearly state your problem as opposed to "I have the same problem...", which probably is not exactly true over such a time span, especially with a 'Buntu and Nvidia drivers.

Try recovery mode on Mint 17. From the boot menu choose recovery mode or edit the boot entry and add the word recovery to the arguments on the linux command line. Change ro to rw in the boot commands or remount the read only filesystem from the root shell.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I haven't spotted any boot menu. :?