On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:17:18 +0000 debian <debian@benburb.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:23:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Surely you've tried purging/reinstalling? > > yup many times :-( > > when I try kdm start it tells me that kdm is already running and ps -ef confirms that. > > when I try kdm stop;kdm start the screen goes blank and the machine is > completely unresponsive for a _considerable_ time (this delay was > always there, even when kdm was working). In kdm.log there is nothing amiss, but syslog reports: > > Jan 25 06:29:27 solaris syslogd 1.4.1#17: restart. > Jan 25 06:29:30 solaris xinetd[26613]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected > > [snip] > > Jan 25 07:43:18 solaris kdm[28745]: Can't lock pid file /var/run/kdm.pid, another xdm is running (pid 2115) > > there is no process 2115, so I cannot kill it. but is there still an orphan .pid file in /var/run? that might be a part of your problem. A > > Jan 25 07:45:45 solaris kdm: :0[28780]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting > Jan 25 07:45:45 solaris kdm: :0[28780]: Cannot connect to :0, giving up > Jan 25 07:45:45 solaris kdm[28777]: Display :0 cannot be opened > Jan 25 07:46:10 solaris xinetd[28861]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected > Jan 25 07:46:10 solaris identd[28861]: started > Jan 25 07:49:33 solaris kdm: :0[28965]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting > Jan 25 07:49:33 solaris kdm: :0[28965]: Cannot connect to :0, giving up > Jan 25 07:49:33 solaris kdm[28952]: Display :0 cannot be opened > > [snip] > > Jan 25 08:01:58 solaris kdm: :0[29578]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting > Jan 25 08:01:58 solaris kdm: :0[29578]: Cannot connect to :0, giving up > Jan 25 08:01:58 solaris kdm[29565]: Display :0 cannot be opened > Jan 25 08:06:36 solaris xinetd[29766]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected > I think the Cannot connect lines are all obviously feeding from the fact that you can't actually start kdm... A > Sorry to trouble you with this. > > Joe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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