on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:04:18AM -0500, Jacob S. insinuated:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:42:14 -0400
> Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> 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.
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