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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.
> 
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