Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:12:57 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> Cc: "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org>
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:34:09PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > 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 Ugh, hopefully it won't come to that :-( You might have been onto something with your comment about lock files -- XFree86 creates various hidden files in /tmp, for instance I have: .ICE-unix/ .X0-lock .X110unix/ You might try deleting all of those (if you have them) and restarting xdm again. I'm not entirely sure it'll help, but it's worth a try. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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