From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 8:51:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681DB14EA4 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01167; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:46:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:46:08 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla 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 Message-ID: <19990709094608.C1101@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 10:17:02AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 10:17:02AM +0200, MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com wrote: > Hi, > > 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...? :-) YES!!! DO NOT REINSTALL!!! In FreeBSD you never reinstall anything, you fix it :) Check /tmp and /var/tmp for files that look like X locks or struff like that. If you want to be shure boot single user (not really necessary) and do: $ cd /tmp $ rm -rf * $ rm -rf .[A-Za-z]* DO NOT rm -rf .* as this includes . and .. and will certainly thrash your filesytem. regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message