Ubuntu
dpkg package

  1. Bug #47320
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 47320

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Mitch Hollander (mitch00) wrote : Re: /etc/init.d/gdm stop falsely reports gdm stopped

This is also the case when using sudo, i.e.,
"sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop". And by extension, affects "restart" as well.

The main problem is that it prevents the user from restarting gdm without rebooting - necessary when trying to solve xorg problems on the Live CD.

"killall -HUP gdm" can be used as a workaround.