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Date:      Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:45:56 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com
Cc:        andyo@prime.net.ua, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: After power failure X does not start
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907090944440.10809-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <H0000d7d05890c8d@MHS>

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HI,

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com wrote:

> as I expected, no X process after booting! If you have any other ideas
> please let me know. What I have not tried yet is reinstalling X, or is
> that too much of a M$ concept...? :-)

If the power dropped out, you probably still have a lock file on X right
now.  Do an 'ls -l /tmp' and see if there's a .X0-lock file - if so delete
it and try to start up X.

Brett



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