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startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)
- From: "bali asur" <bali dot asur at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:18:42 +0530
- Subject: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found.
Please see the logs below.
IN0335-01[48]+ cd /tmp
IN0335-01[49]+ ls
XWin.log
IN0335-01[50]+ ls -al
total 8
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 15:15 .
drwxrwx---+ 12 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 13:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 asura mkgroup-l-d 7416 Nov 13 15:15 XWin.log
IN0335-01[51]+ startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520
xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520, use /home/pom
o/.serverauth.2520-n
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority, use /home/pomo/.Xa
uthority-n
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority, use /home/pomo/.Xa
uthority-n
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.Xauthority
IN0335-01[52]+
IN0335-01[52]+ cd /tmp; ls -al
total 4
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 16:13 .
drwxrwx---+ 12 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 13:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 asura mkgroup-l-d 466 Nov 13 16:13 XWin.log
IN0335-01[53]+ cat XWin.log
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.5.3.0 (10503000)
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1680 h 1050
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
Fatal server error:
Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
total 4
IN0335-01[54]+ ls -al
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 16:13 .
drwxrwx---+ 12 asura mkgroup-l-d 0 Nov 13 13:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 asura mkgroup-l-d 466 Nov 13 16:13 XWin.log
IN0335-01[54]+
regards,
asura
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bali asur wrote:
> Fatal server error:
> Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock
Stale lock?
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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