From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 10:38:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand.global.net.uk (unknown [195.147.248.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0910915697 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p7as11a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.219.123] helo=marder-1.) by sand.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 112eas-0002zr-00; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:37:50 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id SAA00398; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:33:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:33:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Oscar Bonilla 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> References: <19990709094608.C1101@fisicc-ufm.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990709094608.C1101@fisicc-ufm.edu>; from Oscar Bonilla on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:46:08AM -0600 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > -- > 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 > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:markov@globalnet.co.uk http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message