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From: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Decstation 3100 question...
Keywords: nowindow
Message-ID: <2432@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 89 22:55:17 GMT
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Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman
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A friend of mine (Really! :-) has a 3100, that has a problem we can't seem
to find.  He deleted the /tmp directory by accident, recreated it with the
proper modes and stuff.  When he reboots his machine now, he doesn't get
the Xprompter stuff, just a blank X screen.

We can open other windown on it, and in fact can start the Xprompter session
by hand.  syslog had some early errors about 'failing, sleeping' which have
now gone away... X0msgs has nothing in it, syserr has nothing.  the
getty line in the /etc/ttys file looks fine, and in fact we did a find of
all files that had been modified on the day he screwed it up, and they
all match with another 3100 that I have.

Any bright ideas?  I've looked in /dev and all that stuff matches, and the
X window socket appears in /tmp...