From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 06:50:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08837 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08817 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0EU100O0153XQ9@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:50:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Xwindows won't shut down In-reply-to: <01BD8F92.E7A920E0@MANNY> To: Dave Bender Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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