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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:09:50 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        Jason Helfman <jgh@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: laptop keeps crashing, any ideas....
Message-ID:  <CAHHBGkpVWLB2VWhXt-9g_wFvD8n6Tff9q3LEkA%2BOm0NiRQ%2B5cA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120927232924.GA63444@hatter>
References:  <20120927165154.GA60691@hatter> <506486C5.6020001@FreeBSD.org> <20120927232924.GA63444@hatter>

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On 27 September 2012 19:29, Jason Helfman <jgh@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Turns out that there was some either corrupt file under /tmp that was X
> related, or had wrong permissions. I had to clear out tmp manually, then run
> startx to get into X windows. At this point, I remove the bit from
> /etc/rc.conf that I had put in there to not clean out X related bits from
> tmp. With all of these steps, I am successfully back on-line.
>

The advantage of using a tmpfs(5) /tmp
is that there is nothing there after reboot
to be corrupted. ;)

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