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Date:      Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:43:45 -0500
From:      Dave  Bender <bendede@startribune.com>
To:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Xwindows still won't shut down
Message-ID:  <01BD9140.5EE544A0@MANNY>

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I'm still having a problem restarting Xwindows because it gives an error that it has not yet shut down. In response to an earlier email to this list, I took several people's suggestions to delete the X lock files (Thank you, all, by the way).

I've searched my file system high and low for such files, but find none (I had found an .X8-lock file in /tmp I think it was an first moved then deleted that, rebooting and retrying startx to no avail.) I also used the strings command on the X files (not the TV show!) to see if anything lock-like showed up. It has a reference to ".X%s-lock" which meshes with what folks have said and with the file I found. But now that's gone and I still get the same error. 

I thought about reinstalling X, but figured I'd muck things up even more. Plus if there's a hidden lock file somewhere, I wouldn't find it anyway.

Any other suggestions? 




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