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 me:
Mon Jul 12 10:32:08 2004 xdm error (pid 1473): process-id file /var/run/xdm.pid
indicates another xdm is running (pid 762); exiting
indeed, /var/run/xdm.pid DOES contain that pid, but afaict, it's
defunct. `kill -9 762` doesn't do anything, and console 7 (on which i
run X) is just a blinking cursor right now.
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 or 8 or something like that for
the time being?
tia,
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