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From: at@setanta.demon.co.uk (Amrik Thethi)
Subject: Re: XFree86 2.0 with NetBSD 0.9exits with system messed up.
In-Reply-To: tpschlie@news.icaen.uiowa.edu's message of Thu, 18 Nov 1993 03:11:32 GMT
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 18:00:00 GMT
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I had the same problem, this fixes it:

	startx >& /tmp/x or /dev/null whatever.

when it comes back the console is still working.

Incidently the machine is still running, you can login
from other machines on your net (if you have one that is)
and kill the csh on console. That fixes things.
--
Amrik Thethi.			Tel. +223 421 008 Fax. +223 421 024
Setanta Software Ltd.		Internet: at@setanta.demon.co.uk
Cambridge, UK.