Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:04:18AM -0500, Jacob S. insinuated: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:42:14 -0400 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If "ps ax | grep xdm" doesn't show anything, I would do a "rm > /var/run/xdm.pid". If you're concerned about doing this, you could > always try "startx

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:50:59AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:03:51PM +0200, Joerg Johannes insinuated: > > Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb Nori Heikkinen um 16:42: > > > after shutting down xdm the usual way friday afternoon > > > (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), i now can't get i

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/12/04 10:50, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [snip] this is so weird! i don't want to reboot my machine, as i have remote processes writing to its drives right now. how can i either kill this zombie and start up X on console 7, or, failing that, tell X to ignore the zombie and start up on console 6 o

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:02:39PM +0100, Thomas Adam insinuated: > --- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > zombie and start up X on console 7, or, failing that, tell X to > > ignore the zombie and start up on console 6 or 8 or something like > > that for the time being? > > Zombie proce

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:03:51PM +0200, Joerg Johannes insinuated: > Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb Nori Heikkinen um 16:42: > > after shutting down xdm the usual way friday afternoon > > (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), i now can't get it to start via the usual way > > (/etc/init.d/xdm start). it tells me: >

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:42:14 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after shutting down xdm the usual way friday afternoon > (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), i now can't get it to start via the usual way > (/etc/init.d/xdm start). it tells me: > > Starting X display manager: xdm already runnin

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb Nori Heikkinen um 16:42: > after shutting down xdm the usual way friday afternoon > (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), i now can't get it to start via the usual way > (/etc/init.d/xdm start). it tells me: > > Starting X display manager: xdm already running. > > (which it's not

Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > zombie and start up X on console 7, or, failing that, tell X to ignore > the zombie and start up on console 6 or 8 or something like that for > the time being? Zombie processes indicate the parent threw a wobblie and left the children out in the co

xdm won't start; console 7 broken

2004-07-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
after shutting down xdm the usual way friday afternoon (/etc/init.d/xdm stop), i now can't get it to start via the usual way (/etc/init.d/xdm start). it tells me: Starting X display manager: xdm already running. (which it's not), and for that matter, looking at the tail of /var/log/xdm.log tells