Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:48:52 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> Cc: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>, "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030102231852.GD57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org>
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On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 14:52:22 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> 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. You don't solve problems by frantic activity. You can be pretty sure that this would not fix the problem. > 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. Does your friend do Microsoft? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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