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 -- :1" as the user you want logged into x. > > HTH, > Jacob
on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:34:22AM -0400, Ralph Katz insinuated: > 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 or 8 or > >something like that for the time being? > > Nori, I'm no expert, but this works for me with gdm to start a 2nd x > session on console 8 when launched from console 1-6: > > $ DISPLAY=:1 startx -- :1 > > Good luck! thanks, to both of you! i'll keep this in mind. </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net/jnl ^`~'^ ++ Sponsor me as I run my SECOND marathon for AIDS: ++ ++ http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DC-2844 ++
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