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 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? > > > > How about /etc/init.d/xdm restart ? > > wow! that worked. it ALSO just solved the problem i brought up in > an earlier thread, about the entire screen freezing up and not > responding to any keyboard or mouse input.
well, let me amend that. the freezing thing just happened AGAIN (this
is getting obnoxious), and this time a restart didn't do jack ... hm.
> > Do you see the process in ps -ae ? If not, I'd try to remove the
> > xdm.pid file and see what happens (This might be harmful!).
>
> yeah, i thought about that ... not sure what the repercussions would
> be, though. glad i could solve it in a Better Way this time round.
okay, i just had to use this for the above problem, and it appears to
have no adverse side effects. good.
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