From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 8:51:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1257C14EA4 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:51:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10946; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:45:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:45:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor 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 In-Reply-To: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message