Re: Was Space Recovery - Now X-windows problem

2005-07-29 Thread John Graves
Robert Brockway wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, John Graves wrote: xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Hi John. That error can mean a number of things: X is not running because it lacked a valid mode line (most common) X is not running because it died for some other reason X is refusing conn

Re: Was Space Recovery - Now X-windows problem

2005-07-29 Thread John Graves
pier wrote: John Graves wrote: Xsession: X session started for x at Thu Jul 28 17:16:53 EDT 2005 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Any suggestions on where to look to decipher the error messages? Coul

Re: Was Space Recovery - Now X-windows problem

2005-07-29 Thread pier
John Graves wrote: > Xsession: X session started for x at Thu Jul 28 17:16:53 EDT 2005 > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Protocol not supported by server > > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' > > Any suggestions on where to look to decipher the error messages? Could you check

Re: Was Space Recovery - Now X-windows problem

2005-07-28 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, John Graves wrote: > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Hi John. That error can mean a number of things: X is not running because it lacked a valid mode line (most common) X is not running because it died for some other reason X is refusing connections (less common) Try startin

Was Space Recovery - Now X-windows problem

2005-07-28 Thread John Graves
I was noticed that my hard drive was out of room. After some searching using ls & df, I found a file in my home directory (.xsession-errors) that had grown to 17G. I removed it, and thought I was out of the woods. Now I am unable to start any desktop manager. It would just return to the cho

Re: Space recovery

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, John Graves wrote: > > > I am still discovering what I don't know...Among that is why after I > > deleted a 17GB error log, df does not report that space as usable. Is > > there some process I need to start after deletion to ac

Re: Space recovery

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:45:41PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > I am still discovering what I don't know...Among that is why after I > deleted a 17GB error log, df does not report that space as usable. Is > there some process I need to start after deletion to actually recover > that space? > T

Re: Space recovery

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, John Graves wrote: > I am still discovering what I don't know...Among that is why after I > deleted a 17GB error log, df does not report that space as usable. Is > there some process I need to start after deletion to actually recover > that space? In Unix the space will n

Space recovery

2005-07-27 Thread John Graves
I am still discovering what I don't know...Among that is why after I deleted a 17GB error log, df does not report that space as usable. Is there some process I need to start after deletion to actually recover that space? -- Regards, John Graves Dynamic Devices Inc. 781-245-9100