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Re: startxwin: cannot unlink


--- Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:26:13PM -0800, Elvin
> Peterson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 	
> > $ ./startxwin.sh
> > rm: cannot unlink `/tmp/.X11-unix/X0': Permission
> > denied
> > rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix':
> > Directory not empty
> > 
> > Attempt to remove the file using explorer fails
> with
> > "file in use
> > error".  How do I remove this directory?  Any help
> is
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > I have attached the output from cygcheck -svr to
> this
> > mail.
> > Thanks.
> > 
> I had this problem a few weeks ago too, in the end I
> think I managed
> to get rid of it from the windows command line. 
> However I couldn't
> make any sense of the errors about "file in use" and
> so on either.

Thanks for the reply.  I remember having the same
problem when I tried to uninstall WinZip.  After a lot
of tries, one day the file was just gone.  Seems like
a stupid way to deal with things.

Is there an equivalent to the Linux 'fuser' command
for cygwin?  That would show what process was
accessing it.

Thanks.

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