Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:52:22 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>, "" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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> 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. > I tried doing that, but it didn't work either. I just uninstalled XFree86 and recompiled and installed it from the ports (thank god for fast computers), but it still isn't working. i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an option. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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