An experiment in backup

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > When I try a more likely suspect:
> >   sudo restart lightdm
> > I get
> >   restart: unknown instance:
> > with nothing after the colon (":")
>
> I don't use upstart that often.
>
> Try "sudo stop lightdm" and then "sudo start lightdm".
>
the stop also gave me "unknown instance"
while the start gave me the empty X, so it did something.

There's still nothing useful on-screen


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