Re: SOLVED: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 11:11:13 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further >> information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease >> expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft >> machi

SOLVED: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-03 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further > information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease > expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft > machine to see if they are making any assumptions about IP addresses. > You could a

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 6:21:51 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> This is not going to work. Don't reinstall without a good reason. >> What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong >> place. I've looked at your original message and you say you're using >> the server t

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> This is not going to work. Don't reinstall without a good reason. > What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong > place. I've looked at your original message and you say you're using > the server to connect to your local client. That's wrong. It looks > as if exceed is a c

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This is not going to work. Don't reinstall without a good reason. > What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong > place. I've looked at your original message and you say you're using > the server to connect

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 15:29:58 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> . . . >>> i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is >>> to re

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 January 2003 at 14:52:22 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> Ugh, hopefully it won't come to that :-( You might have been onto >> something with your comment about lock files -- XFree86 creates various >> hidden files in /tmp, for instance I have: >> >> .ICE-unix/ >> .X

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts > > so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. > > I've al

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts > > so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. > > I've al

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts > so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. > I've also tried using X-Win32 on this system (and on my lapt

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the > > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :( > > > > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm. > >

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :( > > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm. > xdm is sta

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:29:58PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Jan 1 10:02:54 2003 > > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() > > Ah

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:29:58PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > . . . > > > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > > > to re

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:29:58 +0100 (CET) > From: Marcel Stangenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Brent J. Ermlick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subjec

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > > to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an > > option

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Brent J. Ermlick
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . > i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is > to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an > option. That doesn't make sense. What errors do you see in

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> Ugh, hopefully it won't come to that :-( You might have been onto > something with your comment about lock files -- XFree86 creates various > hidden files in /tmp, for instance I have: > > .ICE-unix/ > .X0-lock > .X110unix/ > > You might try deleting all of those (if you have t

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:34:09PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > >I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation > > >to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease > > >due to a faulty con

Re: XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
> In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation > >to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease > >due to a faulty config. Because of this my X session crashed. Now my > >Xclient refuses to give me

XFree86 lockfile?

2003-01-01 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
Hi all, Happy newyear to everybody. I was working in my X-client lastnight (i use Exceed from my workstation to connect to the X-Client on my FreeBSD server) when i lost my dhcp lease due to a faulty config. Because of this my X session crashed. Now my Xclient refuses to give me a logon screen wh