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To manually relaunch the Weston server after closing the Weston process, do the following:
You must enable SSH to access your host device. For instructions, see Sign in using SSH.
  1. To identify the ID of the Weston processes, run the following commands: 
    mount -o remount,rw /

    ps -A | grep weston
    Sample output: 
    824 ?        00:00:12 weston
1090 ?        00:00:00 weston-keyboard
1092 ?        00:00:01 weston-desktop-
    Use the Weston process ID from the sample Weston process list to kill the Weston processes.
  2. To kill the Weston process, run the following command:
    You can skip the following command if the modetest application is already running.
    killall weston
  3. To relaunch the Weston server, run the following commands: 
    mount -o remount,rw /

    systemctl start weston.service