From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 15:18:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD4437B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F7B43E4A for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:18:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1685551955; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:48:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:48:52 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marcel Stangenberger Cc: Scott Mitchell , "Brent J. Ermlick" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030102231852.GD57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 14:52:22 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> Ugh, hopefully it won't come to that :-( You might have been onto >> something with your comment about lock files -- XFree86 creates various >> hidden files in /tmp, for instance I have: >> >> .ICE-unix/ >> .X0-lock >> .X110unix/ >> >> You might try deleting all of those (if you have them) and restarting xdm >> again. I'm not entirely sure it'll help, but it's worth a try. >> > > I tried doing that, but it didn't work either. > > I just uninstalled XFree86 and recompiled and installed it from the ports > (thank god for fast computers), but it still isn't working. You don't solve problems by frantic activity. You can be pretty sure that this would not fix the problem. > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only > solution is to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really > consider that to be an option. Does your friend do Microsoft? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message