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Every time I try to kill the x-server,

sudo service lightdm stop

so that I can install the latest Nvidia drivers, I get an error message.

stop: Unknown instance:

What am I doing wrong?

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2 Years ago

answered 2 Years ago fishutt · Accepted Answer

I did a little more digging around and found that I could just use pgrep to find its PID and then kill it.

pgrep dm -l

sudo kill (insert PID here)