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Re: Linux workstation

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Subject: Re: Linux workstation
From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:19:58 -0400
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>I rebooted this morning and got an error message that I do not have a clue as 
>what is wrong or how to fix it. Can anybody help?
Yes.

>Here is the error:
>According to /Var/Run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (496) but seems to 
>have been murdered mysteriously.
>then it repeats changing the 496 by increments of 7 ie-505, 512, 519..
>
>It does this for a while then it says" Init: id "x" respawning to fast: 
>disabled for 5 minutes."
>
>I have no idea what is going on here, other than I think that it crashed.
No, get logged on, then delete that file (/Var/Run/gdm.pid). The problem should
vanish with the file.
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