From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 6 10:46:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28005 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 10:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27932 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 10:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA24815; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 12:45:43 -0500 (CDT) To: Dave Bender Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Xwindows still won't shut down References: <01BD9140.5EE544A0@MANNY> From: sfarrell@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 06 Jun 1998 12:45:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: Dave Bender's message of "Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:43:45 -0500" Message-ID: <87emx2fmpk.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Bender writes: > I'm still having a problem restarting Xwindows because it gives an > error that it has not yet shut down. In response to an earlier email > to this list, I took several people's suggestions to delete the X > lock files (Thank you, all, by the way). While I'm sure I'm just repeating their advice, there must be some miscommunication so I'll try to be really specific: X looks /tmp/.X0-lock (or /tmp/.Xn-lock where n is the number of the x server you're running). it also puts a socket in /tmp/.X11-unix/ called, e.g., X0, which clients use to talk to the server. Blowing all of these away should certainly prevent it from thinking that it is running. Note that they are "hidden" files so they only show up with with the -a flag to ls. If you're still having a problem, the make sure your reply contains *exact* transcript of error messages you receive. Also, sorry to be so pedantic, but what's the output of 'ls -lad /tmp/.X*'? Also, please include the versin of FreeBSD that you're running. Post output of 'uname -a' and 'X -version' -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message