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Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:59:10 +0000
- Subject: Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)
- References: <2d8f07b20811130248w6064bcb8gdf5e11a7da07d3a7@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
bali asur wrote:
> I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found.
> 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
Can you try launching the server via "xinit" instead of "startx" ?
Your problem seems to be with xauth writing to a file.
Perhaps you could run something like "xauth -v add :0 . `mcookie`" and try to
work out why it can't write to the file it wants to write to?
Are you actually using Xauthority?
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