laptop keeps crashing, any ideas....

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 27 September 2012 19:29, Jason Helfman <jgh at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Turns out that there was some either corrupt file under /tmp that was X
> related, or had wrong permissions. I had to clear out tmp manually, then run
> startx to get into X windows. At this point, I remove the bit from
> /etc/rc.conf that I had put in there to not clean out X related bits from
> tmp. With all of these steps, I am successfully back on-line.
>

The advantage of using a tmpfs(5) /tmp
is that there is nothing there after reboot
to be corrupted. ;)

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