Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:33:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com, andyo@prime.net.ua, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After power failure X does not start Message-ID: <19990709183313.C263@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19990709094608.C1101@fisicc-ufm.edu>; from Oscar Bonilla on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:46:08AM -0600 References: <H0000d7d05890c8d@MHS> <19990709094608.C1101@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:46:08AM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> 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.
>
This is the stuff great Unix disasters[1] are made of.
rm -ri might be safer when doing recursive wild card rm's :)
[1] Like the guy running out of disk space (on a Sun) who rm'd a
"bloody big file called vmunix". Or another who rm'd all the files
in /dev "because they were empty"........
> regards,
>
> -Oscar
>
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