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RE: X "server already running"?
- From: "Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:49:11 -0000
- Subject: RE: X "server already running"?
- Reply-to: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Kevin Porter wrote on Monday, November 26, 2007 9:08 AM::
> /tmp/XWin.log says:
>
> -- START /tmp/XWin.log --
>
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>
> -- END /tmp/XWin.log --
>
> I suspect a there's a pid file still hanging around for X from the
> previous crashed session? I can't find one, and googling for a
> solution turned up nothing useful.
>
The file you're looking for is /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
If you'd started X with startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh this would have
been done as a matter of course.
Phil
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