Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Dave Bender <bendede@startribune.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Xwindows won't shut down Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980604094930.32042A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD8F92.E7A920E0@MANNY>
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There should be a .X11-lock (or something like that) in /tmp. Delete it as root, then X should run. Joe On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Dave Bender wrote: > I had to reboot while Xwindows was running. Now I can't restart X because I get a message that Xwindows has not shut down. > > How do I shut it down? > > I checked the man pages for startx, X and xdm, but all I could find related to shutting it down was to create a "magic app" in my startup file. Does X lock a file or something to say that it's running? > > Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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