Daniel Reuter writes:
> Hello,
>
> > > How can one FORCE to have a program reloaded from disk and not from
> > > buffer cache, when it has already been run once?
> >
> > Er, there really isn't a way to do that. However, you can flush it out
> [snip]
> > Are you sure that's the question you really meant to ask? What is the
> > actual problem you have or want to investigate?
>
> Now, the problem was, that X crashed on startup (With a stack trace and
> all, however I didn't have the complete output of the Xserver, as it
> vanished upwards on the console).
If you want to capture the output of a command (like startx) do
something like
startx > startx.out 2>startx.err
to capture stdout and stderr to the named files for later examination.
> I first thought it was
> the window-manager, so I started X without any other service running. It
> crashed anyway repeatedly. This never happened before, so I supposed the
> program got somehow corrupt while loading into memory.
Seems very unlikely to me.
> As I needed X at the moment, I rebooted the machine. Then it worked
> without problems.
A lot of other things happen when you reboot. I'm not sure about this
but: X uses networking services at some level -- easier than rebooting
would be restarting those.
Will
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