Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:34:09 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> To: "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org>
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> In article <info.freebsd.questions/20030101160933.O207@eldar.hayholt.org> you wrote: > >I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation > >to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease > >due to a faulty config. Because of this my X session crashed. Now my > >Xclient refuses to give me a logon screen when i start Exceed. I'm > >guessing it has a file somewhere saying that i'm still logged in or > >something. But i can't seem to find this file (or any other reason for > >this beheavure). Can anyone tell me what is going on and how i can fix > >this? > > Sometimes the X server or other X components are still running. In > similar circumstances, I use > > ps axw | grep X > > and kill any X components that I see. > I've tried restarting xdm (killall -HUP xdm) but that didn't help. I've also restarted the entire machine, but that didn't help either. I've just tried to connect using another computer, but that didn't work either. So i'm now thinking of reinstalling XFree86 Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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