On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> Your are looking for /tmp/.X0-lock. Another convention is that files >> starting with a . are 'hidden' in the sense that ls will omit them >> unless you use the -a option. > so just what should appear after I type rm /tmp/.X0-lock Any > output expected? That's an oddly complicated question. Normally rm does what you tell it quietly. If it failed you'd see an error message but nothing on success. However, when you log in as root you get a shell alias that runs 'rm -i' when you type rm. That is the 'interactive' option that makes it prompt before actually removing. But depending on whether you were root, or how you got there, the alias may or may not be active. Anyway, the short story is that if you didn't get an error message, the file should be gone. And now you can try 'startx' again. What you accidentally removed may not affect the desktop. > I never got a nice neat list lie what you have above .Maybe I had > another error when I tried to look in /var/log/yum.log What is the best > command to use to look in here? Thanks . Have a great Easter I usually use 'less' to view files, because the controls are the same as vi. So capital-G to go to the end, b (or up-arrrow) to go backwards, ctl-b by pages, q to quit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com