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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net Subject: Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.9.2-1 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:25:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <4CDAC78F.1010402@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <4CD90E42.5000308@bonhard.uklinux.net> On 09/11/2010 09:02, Fergus wrote: >>> Fatal server error: >>> Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock > >> Does /tmp/.X0-lock exists? Is it readable by you? > > Yes. Hmm. It's strange that the Xserver should choose to lie about that, then. The code in question really does just say... lfd = open(LockFile, O_RDONLY); if (lfd < 0) { unlink(tmp); FatalError("Can't read lock file %s\n", LockFile); } ... so I can't see much room for unpredictability. It would be helpful if you could strace XWin to see why it gets this wrong. Have you tried manually removing the lock file /tmp/.X0-lock? >> Are you sure /tmp is getting mounted successfully >> where you expect it to be? > > Yes. > >> Have you tried '-nolock', as suggested by [1] > > I hadn't then. > But I have now and as a consequence everything is working perfectly. > Thank you. > > (Over time I have occasionally had to moderate the syntax of both "XWin" and > "xterm" command lines to go from working to failing and back again to working. > This is just another example. On an earlier occasion, the recommended use of > -nolock failed. I am just happy when the current usage works. Thanks again.) Well, I can't deny this might be your experience, but that's not how things are supposed to work :-) -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 16:25 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2010-11-08 11:51 Fergus 2010-11-08 14:06 ` Jon TURNEY 2010-11-09 9:12 ` Fergus 2010-11-10 16:25 ` Jon TURNEY [this message] 2010-11-08 17:34 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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