Re: Fatal Error while starting XWin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> vamsi vadhri wrote:
>
> >  "Fatal server error:
> >  InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting."
>
> Are you running Cygwin/X on a terminal server or any other
> system where more than one user can be logged on? Then most likely
> another user has already started XWin. To be able to start XWin
> when another user is already running it, change the startup in
> startxwin.bat from XWin <some options> to XWin :1 <same options>
> and adjust the string for display accordingly (from :0.0 to :1.0).

Or, if you won't ever need to share the Cygwin /tmp directory with the
other users, simply create a user-level /tmp mount that points to a
user-specific directory, e.g. 'mount -u "$USERPROFILE/Local Settings/Temp"
/tmp'...
HTH,
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton