From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 2:21:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0DC14D8F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 02:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com) Received: from isoit644.bbn.hp.com (root@isoit644.bbn.hp.com [15.136.88.78]) by palrel3.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id CAA21724; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 02:20:47 -0700 (PDT) From: MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by isoit644.bbn.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6 TIS Openmail) with SMTP id LAA09620; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:20:45 +0200 (METDST) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:20:24 +0200 Message-Id: Subject: RE: After power failure X does not start MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tried this and more (as suggested) by cleaning the /tmp directory completely, as well as /var/temp, but to no avail! It the problem is not caused by a lock file, what else could it be? Michael -----Original Message----- From: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu [mailto:brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 5:46 PM To: HEITMEIER, MICHAEL /HP-GERMANY,om12 Cc: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu; andyo@prime.net.ua; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: After power failure X does not start 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message