From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9427 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2012 11:00:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 9415 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Mar 2012 11:00:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:00:19 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S3mhG-0005uj-TV for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:00:18 -0800 Message-ID: <33433769.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0000 From: Marc Girod To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . In-Reply-To: <33432156.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <33432156.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 Marc Girod wrote: > > waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . > I started looking at the .server* and .Xauthority files. Found that .Xauthority keeps growing (but not since the origin of times--and see below: cleaned up after timeout!). Now, I removed a previous version so that I only have a smaller chunk left: ~> strings .Xauthority EV68B599EABE1A MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Tnj# MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ~> strings .serverauth.5268 EV68B599EABE1A MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ~> wc .Xauthority 0 3 340 .Xauthority ~> tail -3 /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log [ 4303.693] winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. [ 4303.693] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. [ 4303.693] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. It looks like the .serverauth file was cleaned up after the last exit--this surprises me as I use to find afterwards. .Xauthority was also cleaned up to a minimal state: ~> od -x .Xauthority 0000000 Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/waiting-for-X-server-to-begin-accepting-connections-.-tp33432156p33433769.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/