From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 08:14:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peanut.readington.com (peanut.readington.com [207.207.198.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23149 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by peanut.readington.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05603; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:18:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:18:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino To: Dave Bender cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Xwindows won't shut down In-Reply-To: <01BD8F92.E7A920E0@MANNY> 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 try hitting Note, that is not delete, but backspace. See what that does...=) I should quit the xserver and bring you back to the console...=) Hope that helps, Chris -- Chris Martino chrismar@readington.com 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