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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:14:26 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:34 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> AFter a  power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but 
> # kdm
> 
> fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid.
> 
> I check that file  and, yup, it's there. 

Maybe removing this PID file and retrying to start kdm
should solve the problem? It is possible that kdm refuses
to start while this file is present (and kdm is guessing
that another kdm instance is running already).


-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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