Re: xdm won't start; console 7 broken
--- Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
> 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?
Zombie processes indicate the parent threw a wobblie and left the children
out in the cold. You'll just have to wait until the kernel flushes it, or
the parent becomes active. But on the case of xdm the parent is init, so
you're probably better of either rebooting, or at a push:
telinit 1
telinit 2
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